Look on Yonder Wall

Written by: Elmore James, Marshall Sehorn
Originally written by: James Clark
Language: English
ISWC: T-071.000.804-0 BMI, ISWC
Adapted from: Get Ready to Meet Your Man written by James Clark
Comments: Comparing to the version it is based on, the subject of song has changed. It's no longer about a man who hasn't been drafted and who takes advantage of lonely married women, but about a man who quits his woman because she doesn't treat him right.

The chorus goes:

"...I got me another woman..."

Instead of the original

"... I'm gonna find me woman..."

It also has the following new verse:

"I love you baby, but you just can't treat me right,
Spend all my money and walk the streets all night".

Following verses have disappeared:

"Now yo' man don't want no two keys
Made to his do'
He don't want no strange shoes
Layin' down on his flo'"

and

"He don't want no hat, mama
Three sizes too small
He don't want my clothes
Hangin' up on his wall"
Published by: ARC MUSIC BMI, GEMA
RHINELANDER MUSIC INC BMI, GEMA
Licensing: Request a synchronization license

Versions

Title	Performer	Release date	Info
Get Ready to Meet Your Man	James (Beale Street) Clark	March 11, 1946	First recording on October 22, 1945 First release
Look on Yonder Wall	Jazz Gillum	September 1946
Hand Me Down My Walking Cane	Arthur "Big Boy" Crudup	1950
Just an Army Boy	Boyd Gilmore	1952
Yonders Wall	Junior Parker	August 1962
Yonder Wall	Junior Wells' Chicago Blues Band	November 1965
Yonder Wall	The Underdogs Blues Band	1968
Look over Yonder's Wall	Earl Hooker	1969
Yonder Wall	Freddie King	January 1970
Look Under Yonder Wall	Vera & Eddie "Big Town Playboy" Taylor	1983
Look on Yonders Wall	J.B. Hutto	1985
Look on Yonder Wall	Johnny Copeland	1993
Look over Yonders Wall	The Charles Ford Band	1996
Look over Yonder's Wall	Dave Plaehn & Jeff Hino	1996
Look on Yonder's Wall	Eddie Taylor Jr.	November 2006
Yonder's Wall	Elvin Bishop	September 23, 2008
Look over Yonders Wall	Joe Bonamassa	March 23, 2010
Hand Me down My Cane	Swississippi Chris Harper	2010

Title	Performer	Release date	Info
Look on Yonder Wall	Elmore James	December 1961	First release
Look over Yonders Wall	The Paul Butterfield Blues Band	October 1965
Look on Yonder Wall	John Hammond [US1]	November 1976	Live
Look over Yonders Wall	Jimmy Johnson [US1]	1978
Look on Yonder Wall	Pinetop Perkins	1992
Look on Yonder Wall	Chick Willis	1994
Yonders Wall	Ronnie Earl, Pinetop Perkins, Calvin "Fuzz" Jones, Willie "Big Eyes" Smith	1996
Look on Yonder Wall	The Rockin' Highliners	1996
Look on Yonder's Wall	Hound Dog Taylor	1996
Look on Yonder Wall	Peter Green Splinter Group	May 12, 1997	Live
Look on Yonder Wall	Bryan Lee	November 3, 1997	Live
Look over Yonder's Wall	Denny Walley	1997
Look on Yonder Wall	Gov't Mule	March 23, 1999	Live
Look on Yonder Wall	Bjørn Berge	2001
Yonder Wall	Kal David & The Real Deal featuring Lauri Bono	2001	Live
Yonder Wall	Boggie Leg	2004	Unverified
(Look over) Yonder's Wall	Leslie West	April 26, 2005
Look on Yonder Wall	Little Addison	2005	Unverified
Yonder Wall	Donald Ray Johnson	2006
Look on Yonder Wall	Ken Arconti	May 18, 2007
Look on Yonder Wall	Mietek Blues Band	2009
Look on Yonder Wall	Elmore James Jr. and The Broomdusters	January 12, 2010
Look on Yonder Wall	The Steve Miller Band	June 11, 2010
Yonder Wall	Billy Branch	June 7, 2011
Look Over Yonder's Wall	Magic Slim & The Teardrops	2014	Live Released more than 10 years after its recording
Look on Yonder Wall	Keb Mo	January 2018
Look over Yonder Wall	John Primer	February 24, 2023	Unverified