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In 1963 Billy Edward "Edd" Wheeler released the album "A New Bag of Songs". That bag contained this song as well as his more famous "Jackson". Johnny Cash grabbed them both. First he got a Grammy for "Jackson" together with his howling, jarring wife. In October -69 CBS released "Blistered" as a single (Flip side "See Ruby Fall") to promote his following 33th studio album "Hello, I'm Johnny Cash" (1970). He stripped off all the 7th chords, let Bob Wootton and Fluke Holland go rattling berserk and turned the bluesy skiffle song into a country-rock porridge. Ravage! But it sold. None of Wheeler's own recordings ever did. But here we go, oh yeah: preserve the 7th's, damn it!
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I've got great big blisters on my bloodshot eyes from lookin'
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at that long-legged female up ahead
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what she does ? simply walkin' down the sidewalks of the city
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makes me think about some stray cat gettin' fed
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she's got a whole lot of motion in her soul
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I know that her soul is not the place she lets it show

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she's got that body  oh yeah
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she's got that motion  oh yeah
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she's gonna get me  oh yeah
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she's gonna burn me  oh yeah
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she's gonna tear my soul apart and put big blisters on my heart
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what a mighty crazy cookin' way to go
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Billy Edd Wheeler