Of Course You Know Muddy Waters...

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Muddy Waters has influenced more rock & rollers
(and blues musicians) than every finger in Florida can count.

The Rolling Stones named their band after one of his songs.

John Lennon once said:
If you tried to give Rock And Roll another name,
you might call it Chuck Berry.

But Chuck Berry once sang:
So I hitch hiked to Chicago
Just to hear Muddy Waters play
I sat and listened to him sing
Until the early hours of day
I asked him what I could do to make it
And it was he who showed me the way
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You may not know me
But I have a graduate degree
From the Lewis Carroll
School of Logic
And barely do I miss
A word trick

And all good Carrollians
Knew and know
Muddy Waters'
Alter ego

Professorially speaking
Brilliance he did yield
Proudly we knew him as
Professor McKinley Morganfield

He spent a lifetime
Paying dues
His specialty academically was
Bloggerhythm & Blues

At the Lewis Carroll School,
It was shouted across the quads
"Music is
the mathematics of the Gods."

Now I need to burst
A cultural iceberg:
Without "Professor" Muddy Waters,
There would be no Mark Zuckerberg.

But it all began
With cinematic glory:
Quoting a film
called Love Story.
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