Sonny Boy Williamson II - 'It's Sad To Be Alone'

Album: The Blues Collection



Said Mephisto to me just as lightning lit up the gray skies outside the window, "Deliver yourself into you my hands; I swear, in six months, you'll be happier than a clam at high tide."

Caveat emptor I: Said he also, "... 'a clam at high tide' - that's a saying, an idiom ..."

Caveat emptor II: This is the selfsame man who'd professed to not believe in happiness as "happiness is an abstract - so what is happiness to you isn't happiness to another".

Deliver myself into the devil's hands?

Maybe ...