A lesson on this song is part of my Lightnin' Hopkins ebook https://www.daddystovepipe.com/lightn... If you bought this ebook in the past, send me proof (a tab) and I will send you the lessons/tabs for "Santa Fe Blues and Lightnin' Strikes" for free!! drop D tuning, tuned a half step low (low to high C# G# C€ F# A# D#) Lightnin' recorded this in 1949, his most inventive and productive period. The influence of Lightnin's mentor, Texas Alexander, is very obvious in this song. Listen to following songs by Texas Alexander to find out his influence. "When You Get to Thinking", with guitar accompaniment by Carl Davis https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nw5IS... or "Cornbread Blues" with guitar accompaniment by Lonnie Johnson https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lSo80... I'm playing a Gibson L3 from 1925