Classic Blues Guitar Song – Look Over Yonder’s Wall

I was listening to the latest Joe Bonamassa CD  Black Rock (Amazing CD by the way) and noticed a cool tune that I had heard many times before – “Look Over Yonder’s Wall”

In fact, this is a straight forward, driving 12-bar blues number from the mid-40’s credited to James “Beale Street” Clark that has been done by the who’s who of blues guitar virtuoso’s including Junior Parker, Eddie Boyd, Junior Wells and Buddy Guy,  through to Freddie King and twice this year with Joe Bonamassa and Steve Miller’s latest blues guitar oriented work “Bingo!” 

The main chorus is unforgettable, the perfect blend of simplicity and perfection “Look over Yonder’s Wall Baby, Hand Me Down My Walkin Cane”  – reflecting the story of the song based on a man that, due to a disability, is able to take advantage of lonely married women when their men have gone to the War…tell that doesn’t sound like a blues song!

Here is a version I scraped up from Youtube, this time the master slide guitar player Roy Rogers combines his amazing slide technique with a wonderful driving blues song…take a listen: