The metaphor of the "backdoor" bears many a connotation in Blues language. We all know the Backdoor Man (the one slipping out the backdoor when the husband of his lover shows up), and we know that there is this one entrance to the body (not the head) women and a men have in common. The person who has uploaded this here tune to Youtube seems to have been obsessed with the backdoor-metaphor. In contradistinction to what s/he called it, this here blues is simply called "Sun is gonna shine in my door some day", "door" being no more than a metonymy (pars pro toto) for the house of the singer and as such a synekdoche (if you prefer: just another metonymy) meaning the situation, life or person of the singer. Clearly, Big Bill Broonzy uses it as a synekdoche (or metonymy) for his life / situation. Big Bill, born Lee Conley Bradley in 1893, was a blues singer and guitarist who died either on August 14 or 15, 1958. He started as a country blues man and later changed to more urban style, returning to his roots in the last years of his life. He is credited to have written many a Blues tune. I like this one very much. Here it is, with lyrics.
Just sittin' here hungry and ain't got a dime
Now, looks like my friends would come to see me some time
Cos' it won't matter how that happen,
Woman, the sun is gonna shine in my door some day
When I was in jail, expectin' a fine,
When I went for that judge, not a friend I could find
Cos' it won't matter how that happen,
Woman, the sun is gonna shine in my door some day
Lord, I lost my father, and my brother too,
That's why you hear me singin', Lord, I'm lonesome and blue
Cos' it won't matter how that happen,
Woman, the is sun gonna shine in my door someday
Lordy, lordy, lordy, lord, I used to be your reg'lar,
Woman, I got to be your dog
Cos' it won't matter how that happens,
Woman, the sun is gonna shine in my door some day
Lord, I'm in trouble, no one to pay my fine,
And, when I get out this time, maybe, I'm gonna leave this town flyin'
Cos' it won't matter how that happen,
Woman, the sun is gonna shine in my door some day
Lord, I've been droven from door to door
Now, look like my friends don't want me around no more
Cos' it won't matter how that happen,
Woman, the sun is gonna shine in my door some day
I was with my buddy through thick and thin,
Now, my buddy got away, but I got in
Cos' it won't matter how that happen,
Woman, the sun is gonna shine in my door some day
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