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Fixin' to Die Blues

Traditional Delta blues song

"Fixin' to Die Blues" is a song by American blues musician Bukka White.^[1] It is performed in the Delta blues style with White's vocal and guitar accompanied by washboard rhythm.

White recorded it in Chicago on May 8, 1940, for record producer Lester Melrose.^[2] The song was written just days before, along with eleven others, at Melrose's urging.^[2]

History

White was resuming his recording career, which had been interrupted by his incarceration for two years at the infamous Parchman Farm prison in Mississippi.

While there, White witnessed the death of a friend and "got to wondering how a man feels when he dies".^[2] His lyrics reflect his thoughts about his children and wife:

I'm looking funny in my eyes, an' I b'lieve I'm fixin' to die (2×)
I know I was born to die, but I hate to leave my children cryin' ...
So many nights at the fireside, how my children's mother would cry