The text of the first stanza of She Got Me Walkin can be ...

[geoffrey]

The text of the first stanza of She Got Me Walkin can be diagrammed as the standard form of a three-lined blues stanza, that is:
 
  What will be an ideal response?

Question 2

How does Poor Boy Blues end?
 
  What will be an ideal response?

[Ashley I]

Answer to Question 1

 A A B (Also compare this stanza to the third stanza of Poor Boy Blues analyzed in 33 above.)

Answer to Question 2

 The music stops (all the instruments drop out) and,
 unaccompanied, Lucas sings the words please have mercy on poor boy (this is known as a vocal tacet).
 Instruments quickly re-enter and end on a held note.
A Blues Song in the Making (CD 1:22) She Got Me Walkin'
Follow the accompanying Close Listening guide as you listen to CD 1:22,She Got Me Walkin' (Lazy Bill and His Blue Rhythm).

[geoffrey]

TYSM

[kthug]

Excellent