Arthur "Big Boy" Crudup (August 5, 1905 — March 28, 1974) was a Delta blues singer and guitarist. He is best known outside blues circles for writing songs later covered by Elvis Presley and dozens of other artists, such as "That's All Right" (1946), "My Baby Left Me" and "So Glad You're Mine."
Arthur Crudup was born in Forest, Mississippi in 1905. For a time he lived and worked throughout the South and Midwest as a migrant worker. He and his family returned to Mississippi in 1926. He sang gospel, then began his career as a blues singer around Clarksdale, Mississippi. As a member of the Harmonizing Four he visited Chicago in 1939. Crudup stayed in Chicago to work as a solo musician, but barely made a living as a street singer. Record producer Lester Melrose allegedly found him while he was living in a packing crate, introduced him to Tampa Red and signed him to a recording contract with RCA Victor's Bluebird label.
He recorded with RCA in the late 1940s and with Ace Records, Checker Records and Trumpet Records in the early 1950s and toured throughout the country, specifically black establishments in the South, with Sonny Boy Williamson II and Elmore James (around 1948). He also recorded under the names Elmer James and Percy Lee Crudup. He was popular in the South with records such as "Mean Old 'Frisco Blues", "Who's Been Foolin' You" and "That's All Right".
(words & music by Arthur Crudup)
Well, that's all right, mama
That's all right for you
That's all right mama, just anyway you do
Well, that's all right, that's all right.
That's all right now mama, anyway you do
Mama she done told me,
Papa done told me too
'Son, that gal your foolin' with,
She ain't no good for you'
But, that's all right, that's all right.
That's all right now mama, anyway you do
I'm leaving town, baby
I'm leaving town for sure
Well, then you won't be bothered with me
Hanging 'round your door
Well, that's all right, that's all right.
That's all right now mama, anyway you do
Ah dada di di di di, di di di di, di di di di di di,
Di di di di di, well, that's all right, that's all right.
That's all right now mama, anyway you do.
Well, that's all right with mama, anyway you do
My Baby Left Me Lyrics
My Baby Left Me But That`s Alright Mama"
(Holder & Lea)
Well my baby left me and never said a word
Was it something I done or something that she heard
You know she left me, My baby left me
You know she even left me and never said a word.
Well I stand by my window wring my hands and cry
You know the one I love never said goodbye
You know she left me, My baby left me
You know she even left me and never said a word.
Well that's alright my mama, that's alright by me
That's alright my mama any old way you choose
Well that's alright (That's alright), Ooh that's alright (That's alright)
Well, That's alright my mama any old way you choose.
Take it big boy
You know that one and one is two, two and two is four,
Ooh you know my little baby she don't come round no more.
My baby left me (That's alright), You know she left me (That's alright),
My baby even left me never said a word (That's alright), (That's alright),
You know my baby left me never said a word (That's alright), (That's alright),
You know my baby baby left me never said a word, She's Gone.