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Short song of Sunnyland: Cotchballs

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  Short song of Sunnyland: Cotchball In that time / there was a thing / called cotch balls / cotch is just a three-card game / And I was very bad / I could steal with the back of my hand / palm a dollar / I was a hustler.  

Short song of Sunnyland: Spann

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  Short song of Sunnyland: Spann Spann was bad /  I'm gonna tell you  Spann put out a sound /  he didn’t have nothing to do after he got with Muddy /  if there’s whiskey there / that's the reason he died / Whiskey

Short song of Sunnyland: Ramblin

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  Short song of Sunnyland: Ramblin Then / he started to ramblin / Mean stepmother / caused him to drift from home / A marriage and a murder / Caused ALOT of things to drift.

Short song of Sunnyland: Denton

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  Short song of Sunnyland: Denton We had a lotta cane / rattlesnakes, bears, panthers / come up to you alot / we chewed the sorghum that grew on stalks / Cleaned up the land at six bits a day.