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Gee, but it's hard to love someone
When that someone don't love you I'm so disgusted, heartbroken, too I've got those down hearted blues Once I was crazy 'bout a man He mistreated me all the time The next man I get has got To promise to be mine, all mine Trouble, trouble, I've had it all my days Trouble, trouble, I've had it all my days It seems that trouble's going to follow me to my grave I ain't never loved but three men in my life I ain't never loved but three men in my life My Father, my brother and the man that wrecked my life It may be a week, it may be a month or two It may be a week, it may be a month or two But the day you quit me honey, it's coming home to you I got the world in a jug, the stopper's in my hand I got the world in a jug, the stopper's in my hand I'm going to hold it until you didn't come under my command |
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| 3:04 | 
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| 3. |
| 3:16 |
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I know a triflin' man
They call him Triflin' Sam He lives in Birmingham Way down in Alabam' Now the other night He had a fight With a gal named Mandy Brown She plainly stated She was aggravated And she shouted out to him Aggravatin' papa, don't you try to two-time me I said, don't two-time me Aggravatin' papa, treat me kind or let me be I mean, just let me be It's been a while, I'll get you told Stop messin' round, sweet jellyroll If you stay out with a high-brown baby I'll smack you down, and I don't mean maybe Aggravatin' papa, I'll do anything you say Anything you say But when you go struttin', do your strut around my way So papa, just treat me pretty, be nice and kind The way you treated me will make me lose my mind Aggravatin' papa, don't you try to two-time me Just treat me pretty, be nice and sweet I got a darn forty-four that don't repeat Aggravatin' papa, don't you try to two-time me |
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| 4. |
| 3:34 |
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| 5. |
| 2:56 |
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| 6. |
| 3:05 |
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| 7. |
| 3:26 |
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| 8. |
| 3:07 |
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| 9. |
| 2:56 |
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| 10. |
| 3:27 |
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| 11. |
| 3:06 |
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| 12. |
| 3:07 |
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| 13. |
| 3:11 |
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| 14. |
| 3:17 |
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| 15. |
| 3:35 |
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| 16. |
| 3:31 |
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| 17. |
| 3:13 |
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Lord, this house is goin' to get raided, yes, sir
Thirty days in jail with my back turned to the wall, turned to the wall Thirty days in jail with my back turned to the wall Look here, Mr. Jail-keeper, put another gal in my stall I don't mind bein' in jail, but I got to stay there so long, so long I don't mind bein' in jail, but I got to stay there so long, so long When every friend I have is done shook hands and gone You better stop your man from tickling me under my chin, under my chin You better stop your man from tickling me under my chin 'Cause if he keeps on tickling, I'm sure gonna take him on in Good morning, blues, blues, how do you do? How do you do? Good morning, blues, blues, how do you do? Say, I just come here to have a few words with you |
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| 3:27 |
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| 19. |
| 2:47 |
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| 1. |
| 2:43 |
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| 2. |
| 3:29 |
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| 3. |
| 3:00 |
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| 4. |
| 2:53 |
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| 5. |
| 3:10 |
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Tillie Brown was a dancing fool?
Spent her time in a dancing school? When the band would play Tillie would start right in to sway First one out on the ballroom floor? She never got enough, she just craved for more? When she start to sway? All the girls and boys would say? Whoa, Tillie, take your time Whoa, Tillie, take your time There ain't no use to hurrying 'cause you wanna prance You've got all night to do that dance Whoa, Tillie, lay 'em down? Whoa, Tillie Brown? You don't know what to shake? When you shake? What to break Whoa, Tillie, take your time Whoa, Tillie, take your time Whoa, Tillie, take your time? There ain't no use to hurrying 'cause you wanna prance? Look out there, Tillie, you got all night to do that dance Whoa, Tillie, lay 'em down?Whoa, Tillie, Tillie Brown? You don't know what to shake?When you shake What to break? Whoa, Tillie, take your time |
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| 3:11 |
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I've got a lovesick tale to tell to you?
Though it ain't no affair of mine It's 'bout a gal named Sue and a boy named Lou? They were fighting all the time Sue came home one afternoon And found an empty dining room? Without a word her turtledove had flown She began to moan? My sweetie went away but he didn't say where? He didn't say when, he didn't say why? Oh, bid me goodbye? I'm blue as I can be?I know he loved another one but he didn't say who He didn't say when, he didn't say what? His mama has got? That took my sweetie from me I'm like a little lost sheep? And I can't sleep But I keep trying to forget? My trifling papa has left his mama all alone, I groan? My sweetie went away but he didn't say where He didn't say when, he didn't say why I know I'll die? Why don't he hurry home |
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| 3:25 |
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My man ain't acting right, he stays out late at night?
And still he says he loves no one but me? But if I find that gal, that tries to steal my pal I'll get her told, just you wait and see?I feel blue, I don't know what to do Every woman in my fix is bound to feel blue too, 'cause?I love my man better than I love myself Lord, I love my man better than I love myself And if he don't have me, he won't have nobody else? My man's got teeth like a lighthouse on the sea? My man's got teeth like a lighthouse on the sea? And ev'rytime he smiles he throws them lights on me His voice sounds like chimes, I mean the organ kind His voice sounds like chimes, I mean the organ kind And ev'rytime he speaks his music ease my troubling mind |
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| 3:16 |
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Late last night, I sold away and cried
Late last night, I sold away and cried Had the blues for Chicago, I just can't be satisfied Blues on my brain, my tongue refused to talk Blues on my brain, my tongue refused to talk I was followin' my daddy but my feet refuses to walk Mean old fireman, cruel old engineer Lord mean old fireman, cruel old engineer You took my man and left his mama standing here Big red headline, tomorrow Defender news Big red headline, tomorrow Defender news "Woman dead down home, these old Chicago blues" I said blues |
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| 3:16 |
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| 10. |
| 3:13 |
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| 11. |
| 3:29 |
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Don't bring no ghosts in the front, hurry 'em round to the backdoor!?
This house is so haunted with dead men I can't lose? This house is so haunted with dead men I can't lose And a sneaky old feeling gives me those haunted house blues I can't sleep no more, I done lost my appetite I can't sleep no more, done lost my appetite 'Cause my mistreating daddy hangs around me day and night? He moans when I'm sleeping, he wakes me at 2 a.m.? He moans when I'm sleeping, he wakes me at 2 a.m.? And he makes me swear I'll have no other man but him? Now I'm so worried and I'm blue all the time? Now I'm so worried and I'm blue all the time? Go tell the undertaker to fix that old coffin of mine Lord, help us to get right! I'm scared to stay here, I'm scared to leave this town I'm scared to stay here, I'm scared to leave this town? But a feeling just tells me to burn this house on down? Tear this house on down |
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| 12. |
| 3:10 |
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| 13. |
| 3:08 |
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Some folks the're always crying
Crying their mean old blues Not Me, you never even see me frown. Some folks just walk around tryin' Tryin' hard love to loose, But I felt let it come the better let it burn I'm the happiest gal in the town Easy come easy go Nothing ever worries me, Care for none, eyes of stone Don't know misery. If my man be trouble, Or if he don't I'll get someone to love me anytime you want Easy come easy go Right from my head to my shoes Don't wanna be no skinny vamp or nothing like that Daddy always knows just where his sweet Mama's at I'm overflowin' with those easy come, easy go blues. He'll swallows me up, when he's lovin; hear what I've said Believe me I go out to lick him 'most everyday I'm overflowin' with those easy come, easy go blues. |
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| 3:17 |
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If you catch me stealin', I don't mean no harm
If you catch me stealin', I don't mean no harm It's a mark in my family and it must be carryin' on I got nineteen men and won't want more I got nineteen men and won't want more If I had one more I'd let that nineteen go It's hard to love another woman's man It's hard to love another woman's man You catch him when you want him, you got to catch him when you can Have you ever seen a peaches grow on sweet potato vine?? Have you ever seen a peaches grow on sweet potato vine ?? Just step in my backyard and take a peep at mine I'm gonna tell you, daddy, like Solomon ?told the Jew I'm gonna tell you, daddy, like Solomon told the Jew If you don't like-ee me, I sure don't like-ee you |
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| 3:14 |
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| 16. |
| 3:14 |
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| 17. |
| 3:18 |
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| 18. |
| 2:51 |
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Hey boweavil, don't sing them blues no more
Hey boweavil, don't sing them blues no more Boweavil's here, boweavil's everywhere you go I'm a lone boweavil, been out a great long time I'm a lone boweavil, been out a great long time For to sing this song, to ease boweavil's troublin' mind I don't want no sugar, put into my tea I don't want no sugar, put into my tea The mens are so evil, I'm scared they might poison me I went down town I bought myself a hat I brought it back home I laid it on the shelf I looked in my bedroom Tired sleepin' by myself I'm tired sleepin' by myself |
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| 3:08 |
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