Killing Floor

Album: The Real Folk Blues (1965)
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  • I should have quit you, a long time ago
    I should have quit you, babe, long time ago
    I should have quit you, and went on to Mexico
    If I had-a followed my first mind
    If I had-a followed my first mind
    I'd been gone, since my second time

    I shoulda went on, when my friend come from Mexico at me
    I shoulda went on, when my friend come from Mexico at me
    But no, I was foolin' with ya, baby, I let ya put me on the killin' floor
    Lord knows, I shoulda been gone
    Lord knows, I shoulda been gone
    And I wouldn't have been here, down on the killin' floor
    Yeah Writer/s: Chester Burnett
    Publisher: BMG Rights Management
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

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  • James B from Las Vegas, NevadaI guess I missed the meaning of the title of this classic blues tune by some margin. I thought that “killing floor” was slang for death row in prison. I thought that, instead of getting out of the relationship when he could have and should have, he stayed in it and became so frustrated and angry that he eventually killed the woman in a fit of rage and ended up with a death sentence. I thought that my take on the tune’s meaning was consistent with the tragic stories about relationships that blues tunes described.
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