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1. _ The Last Dime
The Last Dime Trk 6 Disc 1 3:18
Peetie Wheatstraw (William Bunch)
(Bunch)
Mar 25, 1934 Vocalion 92712
Peetie Wheatstraw - vocal, prob Charlie Jordan - gtr
Album: Peetie Wheatstraw Essentials Album
Allego Classic Blues CBL 200037
Transcriber: Awcantor@aol.com
I believe, I believe that I'll go back home
Umm-um-um
I believe that I'll go back home
Well now I'm goin', hardly matters
Ooo-well-brown, than if I be treated wrong
Well, now this not my home
Mama, an I sure don't have to stay
Umm-mm-mm
Babe, I sure don't have to stay
Well now-now, give me a good going
Hoo-hoo-well-well, then I believe I'll go away
Please now don't never give
The woman you love, dime
I said, please don't never give
The woman you love, dime
Well then after you do it
Hoo-hoo-well now
She gon' mistreat you all the time
(piano)
Well, my little woman now she called me
An asked me for my last dime
Well, my little woman she called me
An asked me for my last dime
Well, well now when she get it
Hm-mm, 'Now', she said, 'You is no man a-mine'
You been a-lyin', baby
You been a-lyin'
I don't know how I love you what you do
Hmm-mm-mm
Feedin' me lies will hurt you, too
Well now the same old thing
Hoo-hoo, now is gon' come creeping after you.
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2. _ Shack Bully Stomp
Shack Bully Stomp Trk 4 Disc 1 2:32
Peetie Wheatstraw (William Bunch)
(Giles, Jones)
Apr 1,1938 Decca 7479
vocal- Peetie Wheatstraw with Lonnie Johnson - guitar
Album: Peetie Wheatstraw Essentials Album
Allego Classic Blues CBL 200037
Transcriber: Awcantor@aol.com
I used to play slow
But now I play it fast
I used to play slow
But now I play fast
Just to see the women
Shake their yas, yas, yas
(piano & guitar)
Now I am a man that ev'rybody know
I am a man an that ev'rybody knows
An you can see a crowd
Ev'rywhere he goes
(piano & guitar)
'Play it fast, boy'
Ramble an I ramble
'Till about the break of day
Ramble an I ramble
'Till about the break of day
I think it's time now
To stop my ramblin' ways
(piano & guitar)
My name is Peetie
I'm on the line you bet
Yoo-hoo-well, I'm on the line you bet
I got somethin' new
That I ain't never told you yet
(piano rag)
'Now get down there for a change'
(piano boogie)
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3. _ Working On The Project
Working On The Project Trk 15 Disc 1 3:02
Peetie Wheatstraw (William Bunch)
(Jordan)
March 30, 1937 Decca 7311
Peetie Wheatstraw - vocal & piano
with Kokomo Arnold - gtr
Album: Peetie Wheatstraw Essentials Album
Allego Classic Blues CBL 200037
Transcriber: Awcantor@aol.com
I was workin' on the project
Beggin' for relief for shoes
I was workin' on the project
Beggin' for relief for shoes
Because the rock an concrete
Hoo-well-well, now they giving my feet the blues
Workin' on the project
With holes all in my clothes
Workin' on the project
With holes all in my clothes
Tryin' to make me a dime
To keep the rent man from puttin me outdo's
I am workin' on the project
Tryin' to make both ends meet
I am workin' on the project
Tryin' to make ends meet
But the payday is so long
Woo-well-well, until the grocery man won't let me eat
Workin' on the project
My gal spending all my dough
Workin' on the project
My gal spending all my dough
Now I have waked up on her
Ooh-well-well, and I won't be that weak no mo'
Workin' on the project
With payday three or four weeks away
Workin' on the project
With payday three or four weeks away
Now, how can you make they meet
Ooo-well-well-well, when you can't get no pay?
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4. _ More Good Whiskey
More Good Whiskey Trk 1 Disc 2 3:00
Peetie Wheatstraw (William Bunch)
(Bunch)
Peetie Wheatstraw - Vocal, w/ poss. Casey Weldon or Teddy Darby - gtr
March 26, 1935 Vocalion 02978 Chicago
Album: Peetie Wheatstraw Essentials Album
Allego Classic Blues CBL 200037
Transcriber: Awcantor@aol.com
I'm so glad
Good whiskey have made it through
Well-well, I'm so glad
Good whiskey have made it through
Well now, it have saved my wife from dyin'
Hoo-hoo-well, pal now it saved my sweetheart, too
I'm so glad
Good whiskey has come back in time
Well now, I'm so glad
Good whiskey has come back in time
Because now I've drank so much hooch
Hoo-hoo-well-well, now about to lose my mind
I'm so glad
Good whiskey sho' is here
Mm-hm-um-um, good whiskey sho' is here
Well-well, now if you can't drink good whiskey
Ooo-well-well, why not drink some doggone good beer?
I'm so glad
Good whiskey has come back to me
Umm-hm-um-well
Good whiskey has come back to me
Well now, it brought me good things
Hoo-hoo, well-well, now from way 'round 'cross the sea
Sure as just as welcome
Good whiskey, now as the flowers is in May
Yes, just as welcome, good whiskey
That flowers is in May
Well, since you have come back to me
Hoo-well-well, now hope you have come back to stay.
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5. _ I Want Some Sea food
I Want Some Sea Food Trk 12 Disc 2 2:37
Peetie Wheatstraw (William Bunch)
(Bunch, Smith)
Peetie Wheatstraw - vocal, pno, w/ poss Lonnie Johnson - gtr
Sept 14, 1936 Chicago, Decca 7657
Album: Peetie Wheatstraw Essentials Album
Allego Classic Blues CBL 200037
Transcriber: Awcantor@aol.com
I want some seafood mama
An I don't mean no turnip greens
I want some seafood mama
An I don't mean no turnip greens
I want some fish, ooo-well-well
An you know just what I mean
I want fish, fish mama
I wants it all the time
I wants fish, fish mama
I wants good fish all the time
The people calls it seafood, woo-well-well
All up an down the line
If you love your seafood
You is a good friend of mine
If you love your seafood
You is a good friend of mine
If you don't love good fish, woo-well-well
You better get on some kinda time
I want some seafood, mama
Because I am a seafood man
I want some seafood, mama
Because I am the seafood man
When I can't get my seafood
I goes to raisin' sand
So bye-bye, people
I hope this July will find you well
Hm-mm, bye-bye people
I hope this July will find you well
Because the seafood I'm talkin' about
Ooo-well now, I swear it is a-burnin' hell.
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6. _ Devil's Son-In-Law
Devil's Son-In-Law Trk 10 Disc 1 3:23
Peet Wheatstraw
(Wheatstraw)
Peetie Wheatstraw - vocal, piano w/ poss. Charly McCoy - gtr
Recorded Sept 28,1931 Bluebird B5451
Album: Peetie Wheatstraw Essentials Album
Allego Classic Blues CBL 200037
Transcriber: Awcantor@aol.com
I wonder where would you be now, little mama
Baby, now you made my life a wreck
And now where would you be-be, um
Mama, now you made my life a wreck
Mama, now I'd rather have a rattle snake
Honey now, wrapped a-round my neck
When you used to love me, now little mama
Mama, go clear down to my toes
When you used to love me, baby
Have it go clear down to my toes
Well-well, the other way that I love you, mama
Honey, now don't nobody know
Now I've got eleven women, umm
And I got one little indian squaw
I say I got eleven women
And I got one little indian squaw
Well-well, now that they come to see me
I'm liable to be the Devil's-Son-In-Law
'Play it for me one time, pick it now won't cha?'
(piano & guitar)
Now, an if you take my little woman
You can't keep her long
Well now, if you take my little woman
Well now you can't keep her long
Well-well now, she will come running home
Cryin, 'Daddy, now I done wrong'
Baby, you will never catch special deliveries, mama
Honey, directed to my chest
Tell you now you will never get
(special deliveries mama, honey, directed to my chest)
Now, when I leave you now, little mama
You will never see me back here, again.
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7. _ Throw Me In The Alley
Throw Me In The Alley Trk 15 Disc 2 2:48
Peetie Wheatstraw (William Bunch)
(Bunch)
Peetie Wheatstraw - vocal, pno. acc by Blues Blowers
Ike Rodgers - trombone, Henry Brown - piano
August 24, 1934 Chicago, Decca 7018
Album: Peetie Wheatstraw Essentials Album
Allego Classic Blues CBL 200037
Transcriber: Awcantor@aol.com
(2 verse vocal & instrumental 'dixieland jazz style')
Gotta get low
Let's go down in this valley
Woo-well-well
Let's go down in this valley
Peetie Wheatstaw, good people
Gon' put y'all in the alley
Bye-bye, baby
What's the matter with the alley?
Woo-well-well
What's the matter in the alley ?
Way you treat me little mama
You don't mean me no good no how.
(violin & instrumental)
'Peetie, know nothin' - but he know e'nuff'
(clarinet & instrumental)
(trombone & instrumental)
(violin & instrumental)
'Blow that thing, now'
(clarinet & instrumental)
(trombone & instrumental)
(piano boogie & trombone)
(violin & trombone instr to end)
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8. _ What More Can A Man Do?
What More Can A Man Do Trk 5 Disc 2 3:02
Peetie Wheatstraw (William Bunch)
(Bunch)
Peetie Wheatstraw - vocal, w/Lonnie Johnson - gtr, unk acc.
April 1, 1938 Chicago, Decca 7479
Album: Peetie Wheatstraw Essentials Album
Allego Classic Blues CBL 200037
Transcriber: Awcantor@aol.com
Listen hear baby, ain't gon' be yo' dog all my life
Because yo' other man tried to take my life
So what more can a man do?
I'd give up my job, lay down my money to you
Listen here baby you ain't treat me right
You don't do nothin' but clown 'n fight
You know I love you don't care what you do
I'm gettin' tired of clownin' with you
What more can a man do?
Give up my job, lay down my money to you
You go out tonight no tellin' what I'll do
I'm gettin' tired of worryin' over you
What more can a man do?
I'll give up my job, lay down my money to you
'Now play at that girl'
(guitar & instrumental)
Now you know mama
I'm gettin' tired, gettin tired, gettin' tired
You're in St. Louis all disguised
Cried last night an night befo'
I leave you this time I won't have to cry no mo'
What more can a man do?
I'll give up my job, lay down my money to you
So bye-bye baby, I'm leavin' you now
I know you don't mean no good, no how
You did ev'rything a woman could do
You know about that, than I am through with you
What more can a man do?
I'll give up my job, lay down my money to you.
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9. _ Crapshooters Blues
Crapshooters Blues Trk 1 Disc 1 3:09
Peetie Wheatstraw (William Bunch)
(Bunch)
Chicago, Mar 26, 1937
Decca 7292
Peetie Wheatstraw - vocal, unk acc.
Album: Peetie Wheatstraw Essentials Album
Allego Classic Blues CBL 200037
Transcriber: Awcantor@aol.com
My baby's a crap shooter
And she shoots 'em like a man
My babe, she's a crapshooter
And she shoots em' like a man
And ev' since she been shooting craps
Woo-well-well, she been going from hand to hand
Sometime she wins
But the most time she lose
Sometime she win
But now the most time she lose
But now when she lose
Woo-well-well, then I have the crap shooting blues
She told me to always
Bet that the dice won't pass
She told to always
Bet that the dice won't pass
But ev'rytime since I been bettin' that way
Woo-well-well, I been had a raggedy yas, yas, yas.
Since I have been shooting craps
I can't win a cent
Since I have been shooting craps
I can't win a cent
Well, I can't win enough dough
Woo-hoo-well-well, now to even pay my rent
I'm tellin' all you crapshooters
Now to let crapshooting go
I am telling all you crapshooters
Woo-well, to let crapshooting go
'Cause now you will be stone barefooted
Woo-well-well, then again and outta dough.
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10. _ Gangsters Blues
Gangster's Blues Trk 16 Disc 2 2:45
Peetie Wheatstraw (William Bunch)
(Luther, Williams)
Peetie Wheatstraw - vocal, pno, Jonah Jones - trp, Lil Armstrong - piano
Sid Catlett - drms.
August 28, 1940 Chicago, Decca 7815
Album: Peetie Wheatstraw Essentials Album
Allego Classic Blues CBL 200037
Transcriber: Awcantor@aol.com
Last night buddy, I caught you kissin' my wife
Don't ya know I'm gonna take your life?
I've got the gangster blues
I've got the gangster blues
I've got the gangster blues
Boys, I am feelin' mean
I'm gon' take you for an easy ride
Drop you off on the riverside
I got the gangster blues
I've got the gangster's blues
I've got the gangster's blues
Boys, I am feelin' mean
I'm gonna bound yo' mouth so you can't talk
Tie yo' feet so you can't walk
I've got the gangster's blues
I've got the gangster's blues
I've got the gangster's blues
Boys, I am feelin' mean
You can start your screamin' but must give in
I'm gonna tear you a-pieces and put you back, again
I've got the gangster's blues
Now, I've got the gangster blues
I've got the gangster's blues
Boys, I am feelin' mean
Put up your hands and reach for the sky
Won't let you down before you bat an eye
I've got the gangster's blues
I've got the gangster's blues
I've got the gangster's blues
Boys, I am feelin' mean
I'm gonna bury you out on the lone prairie
Because I know you's bide'n on me
I've got the gangster's blues
I've got the gangster's blues
I've got the gangster blues
Boys, I am feelin' mean.
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11. _ Separation Day
Separation Day Blues Trk 18 Disc 2 2:26
Peetie Wheatstraw (William Bunch)
(Jordan)
Peetie Wheatstraw - vocal, pno, poss/ Lil Armstrong or
Jack Dupree - piano, unk acc.
November 25, 1941 Chicago, Decca 7901
Album: Peetie Wheatstraw Essentials Album
Allego Classic Blues CBL 200037
Transcriber: Awcantor@aol.com
Ain't it hard to say goodbye on separation day?
Ain't it hard to say goodbye on separation day?
That the last thing my baby say
Ooo-well, now when she walked away
I couldn't hardly take it
But I had the debt to pay
I couldn't hardly take it
But I had the debt to pay
Because my baby said good-bye
Hoo-hoo-well, on separation day
It was a hard pill to swallow
On that going that way
It is too late to holler
When your good girl is gone away
It's a hard pill to swallow, hoo-well-well
When you think about separation day
(piano)
Wait here one hour, while I go an pray
Wait here one hour, whiles I go an pray
I wanna tell the people, hoo-well-well
I ain't seein' my cell today.
When you get up in the mornin'
You don't have nothin' to say
When you get up in the mornin'
You don't have nothin' to say, mm
Because your mind is restin'
Hoo-hoo, well on sparation day.
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12. _ Third Street's Going Down
Third Street's Going Down Trk 4 Disc 2 3:04
Peetie Wheatstraw (William Bunch)
(Jordan)
Peetie Wheatstraw - vocal. unk acc
Sept 7, 1934 Chicago, Vocalion 02810
Album: Peetie Wheatstraw Essentials Album
Allego Classic Blues CBL 200037
Transcriber: Awcantor@aol.com
We used to have luck in the valley
But the little girl had to move way out of town
We used to have luck in the valley
But the girl had to move way out of town
Some moved in the alley
Ooo-well-well, because Third Street is going down
I had a girl on St. Louis Avenue
But Third Street she hung around
I had a girl on St. Louis Avenue
But Third Street she hung around
But the law got so hot
Ooo-well-well, until Third Street is going down
I waked up one mornin'
My face all full of frowns
Waked up one mornin'
My face all full of frowns
I heard nothin' about my baby
Ooo-well-well, Third Street is goin' down
(piano
'Play it, let her hear it now'
'Tore down highway sounds'
(piano continues)
The city hired Mr. Keeler
To put a highway through that part of town
I said, the city hired Mr. Keeler
To put a highway through that part of town
The law told the girls to move
Ooo-well-well, why because we're tearing Third Street down.
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13. _ Machine Gun Blues
Machine Gun Blues Trk 8 Disc 2 2:47
(Peetie Wheatstraw)
Peetie Wheatstraw (William Bunch)
(Jordan)
Peetie Wheatstraw - vocal, pno.
March 30, 1939 New York, Decca 7778
Album: Peetie Wheatstraw Essentials Album
Allego Classic Blues CBL 200037
Transcriber: Awcantor@aol.com
Speak easy, speak easy
An let my machine gun rest
Speak easy, speak easy
An let my machine gun rest
It have been smokin' all night long
Ooo-well-well, an you sho' knows the rest
My woman stayed out last night
With the man that lives next do'
My woman stayed out last night
With the man that lives next do'
But when I get through with my machine gun
Ooo-well-well, she won't stay out no mo'
I know so well
She is givin' my lovin' a-way
I know so well
She is givin' my lovin' away
But when I do find her, ooo-well-well
I'm 'onna to see what my machine gun goin' to say
(piano)
I had a little faror
Goin' to her other world of other men
I had a little faror
Caught her with another man
She looked at me an said
'Hoo-well-well, please leave your machine gun dead.'
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14. _ Peetie Wheatstraw Stomp
Peetie Wheatstraw Stomp Trk 8 Disc 1 2:28
Peetie Wheatstraw (William Bunch)
(Bunch)
Mar 26, 1937 Decca 7292
Album: Peetie Wheatstraw Essentials Album
Allego Classic Blues CBL 200037
Transcriber: Awcantor@aol.com
Women all ravin'
About Peetie Wheatstraw in this land
Women all ravin'
About Peetie Wheatstraw in this land
He got so many women
They're goin' from hand to hand
Don't tell all the girls
What that Peetie Wheatstraw can do
Woo-hoo-well, that Peetie Wheatstraw can do
That will cause suspicion
Now an you know they will try him, too
(piano)
'Now play a little bit more, let's see how women clown'
If you wanna see the women an men clown
If you wanna see the women an men clown
Just let that Peetie Wheatstraw, come into your town
(piano)
I am Peetie Wheatstraw
The High Sheriff From Hell
I am Peetie Wheatstraw
The High Sheriff From Hell
The way I strut my stuff
Woo-well now, you never can tell.
(piano)
'Now do your stuff, Peetie'
(piano to end)
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15. _ Mr. Livinggood
Mister Livinggood Trk 17 Disc 2:23
Peetie Wheatstraw (William Bunch)
(Williams)
Peetie Wheatstraw - vocal, pno, poss Lil Armstrong
or Jack Dupree - piano. unk acc
Nov 25, 1941 Chicago, Decca 7879
Album: Peetie Wheatstraw Essentials Album
Allego Classic Blues CBL 200037
Transcriber: Awcantor@aol.com
I am all snowed under and beat so bad
I am all snowed under and beat so bad
Not a dime, ooo-well-well
For the big wealth that I had
I could just phone anywhere in town
I could just phone anywhere in town
Mr. Livinggood wanted it? ooo-well-well
An they'd rush it on down
I had a butler just to fetch me my gin
I had a butler just to fetch me my gin
Living seven ways through the week
Hoo-well now, but I'm living ten
On big parties I drop money on the flo'
On big parties I drop money on the flo'
An leave it for the sweeper
An walk on out the do'
I buy my baby a silk dress ev'ryday
I buy my baby, silk dress ev'ryday
She'd wear it one time, ooo-well-well
Then she'll just throw it away
I had money in my name but I was too big a fool
I had money in my name but I was too big a fool
I would throw it at the wind, ooo-well
Because I was stubborn as a mule.
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16. _ The Good Lawd's Children
The Good Lawd's Children Trk 13 Disc 2:45
Peetie Wheatstraw (William Bunch)
(Williams)
Peetie Wheatstraw - vocal, poss Lil Armstrong - piano
Robert Lee McCoy - hca
March 12, 1941 Chicago, Decca 7879
Album: Peetie Wheatstraw Essentials Album
Allego Classic Blues CBL 200037
Transcriber: Awcantor@aol.com
They say we are the Lord's children
I don't say that ain't true
They say we are the Lord's children
I don't say that ain't true
But if we all the same like each other
Ooo-well'well, why do they treat me like they do?
What's wrong with the Lord's children?
I don't understand
What's wrong with the Lord's children?
I don't understand
Some men got no use for woman
Ooo-well-well, some women got no use for man
I wanna live on children
Soon I would just like to see
I wanna live on children
I said I would just like to see
What will become of us
Ooo-well-well, by nineteen and fifty-three
Some of the good Lord's children
Some of them ain't no good
Some of the good Lord's children
Some of them ain't no good
Some of them are the devil
Ooo-well-well, and wouldn't help you if they could
Some of the good Lord's children
Is about to need some prayer
Some of the Lord's children
Needs about to kneel and pray
You serve the devil in the night
Hoo-well-well, and serve the Lord in the day.
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17. _ Johnnie Blues
Johnnie Blues Trk 11 Disc 2 2:43
Peetie Wheatstraw (William Bunch)
(Bunch, Smith)
Peetie Wheatstraw - vocal, pno.
July 20, 1935, Chicago Vocalion 03155
Album: Peetie Wheatstraw Essentials Album
Allego Classic Blues CBL 200037
Transcriber: Awcantor@aol.com
The women all ravin'
Aout Johnnie in this town
Women all ravin'
About Johnnie in this town
An he got something
Woo-well-well, make the women clown
(piano)
He made them laugh
An he made them cry
He made them laugh
An he made them cry
He have a sweet way of lovin'
Woo-well-well, an that's the reason why
(piano & guitar)
He got something
That will make them clown
He now got something
That will make them clown
Well-now, an he made one woman
Now jump overboard and drown
(piano & guitar)
Don't never tell
What the Johnnie man can do
Please, don't never tell
What the Johnnie man can do
Because that will make other women
Ooo-well, now want to clown over him, too.
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18. _ Peet Wheatstraw
Pete Wheatstraw Trk 11 Disc 1 3:15
(Wheatstraw)
Peetie Wheatstraw - vocal, piano w/ Charlie McCoy - gtr
Recorded Sept 28,1931 Bluebird B5451
Album: Peetie Wheatstraw Essentials Album
Allego Classic Blues CBL 200037
Transcriber: Awcantor@aol.com
Now this is Peetie Wheatstraw, remember
People wanna know where do I prowl
This is Peetie Wheatstraw
People wanna know where do I prowl
Sometimes I prowl a far distant land
Sometimes I prowl on the rising clouds
An now I once was a good boy
Mama, I was good all over town
I say, I once was a good boy
Babe, I was good all over town
Well-well, nar' I don't see why
People tried to slam me down
When I first met you, little baby
Baby, this is the lie you told
I know when I first met you, baby
This is the lie you told
You said now you could get my money, baby
And then I will be made of silver and gold
(instrumental)
'What you gonna do, Charlie
You gonna play for me or just for money?'
'Money!'
Now what are you gon' do little baby, um-mm-mm
When your road gets dogged like mine?
Now what are you gon' do, baby
Now when your road gets dogged like mine?
Honey, now you would be worried
Mama now an bothered all the time
Now if anybody ask you baby, hmm
Honey, now who compose this song?
Well-well-well, now if anybody asks you
Mama, who compose this song?
Now-now, will you please tell 'em this is, Peetie Wheatstraw
Well now he have been here and gone.
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19. _ Sinking Sun Blues
Sinking Sun Blues Trk 16 Disc 1 2:54
Peetie Wheatstraw (William Bunch)
(Bunch)
Peetie Wheatstraw - vocal, with Sam Price - pno
poss. Teddy Bunn - gtr, O'neil Spencer dms
March 30, 1939 Decca 7578
Album: Peetie Wheatstraw Essentials Album
Allego Classic Blues CBL 200037
Transcriber: Awcantor@aol.com
The evening sun is beginning to sing low
The evening sun is beginning to sink low
Just a few more hours
Ooo-well-well and I will have to go
Once I was going down the lonesome road
Once I was going down the lonesome road
I met a man, hoo-well-well
And he was bound with heavy load
By then the sun had turned now, the whole world red
By then the sun had turned the whole world red
Poor me didn't have no place
Ooo-well-well, now to lay my worried head
Darkness fell upon me and I couldn't hear a sound
Darkness fell upon me and I couldn't hear a sound
I let fate be my pillow, hoo-well-well
My bed be on the ground
When I think about all the bad deeds I have done
When I think about all the bad deeds I have done
I say to myself, ooo-well-well, I'm no good son-of-a-gun.
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20. _ Slave Man Blues
Slave Man Blues Trk 14 Disc 1 2:47
Peetie Wheatstraw (William Bunch)
(Bunch)
Recorded: July 17, 1935 Decca 7111
Album: Peetie Wheatstraw Essentials Album
Allego Classic Blues CBL 200037
Transcriber: Awcantor@aol.com
How many mo' years
Baby, now will I be your slave?
I say, how many mo' years
Mama, now will I be your slave?
Well, now something I'm tellin' you
Woo-well, now I'm tired of you low down dirty ways
When I come home at night
Baby, ev'rything is wrong
When I come home at night
Mama, ev'rything is wrong
Now you sit keep company all day
Woo-well-well, your man he will be gone
I often tell you
To be careful what you do
Woo-hoo-well-brown
To be careful what you do
Well now, if it is right or wrong
Woo-well, somebody may tell on you
(piano - Peetie)
I tried to be a real man
But now it seems to be all in vain
Woo-hoo-ooo, girl
Seems to be all in vain
But now you know if tell on you, baby
Woo-well, now you goin' just the same
Can you tell me please
If you know just what right means?
Woo-well brown
If you know just what right means?
Well you about to go out here, grumpiest
Woo-well, then any woman I ever seen.
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21. _ Long Time Ago Blues
Long Time Ago Blues Trk 3 Disc 2 3:13
Peetie Wheatstraw (William Bunch)
(Bunch)
Peetie Wheatstraw - vocal, w/poss Charley Jordan - gtr
Sept 7, 1934 Chicago, Vocalion 02810
Album: Peetie Wheatstraw Essentials Album
Allego Classic Blues CBL 200037
Transcriber: Awcantor@aol.com
This very mornin', long time ago
Um-hm-well-well
Been a long time ago
Well now I got in trouble
Ooo-well, brown babe now I've gotta go on
I gotta leave here
Now I can't stay here no mo'
Ooo-hoo-well-well
Said I can't stay here no mo'
Well now trouble now have got me
Hm-hm-well now, an I gotta go on
Ain't it hard to have a home
An you can't go there no mo'?
Now ain't it hard to have a home
An you can't go there no mo'?
Well, but now I've gotta travel on
Ooo-well brown babe, now an I got to go
(guitar)
Well, when I got up this mornin'
Babe I walked out in the street
I tell ya, I got up this mornin'
Mama, I walked out in the street
Ah, you know I met a man, hoo-well brown
An he's got a razor in both his hands
Well now you know about the reason
I'm away from home today
Um-hm-well, now that's the reason
I'm away from home today
Well-well-well, 'till my bailiff caught me
Ooo-well-brown, now I be away today.
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22. _ Peetie Wheatstaw Stomp No. 2
Peetie Wheatstraw Stomp No 2 Trk 6 Disc 2 2:38
Peetie Wheatstraw (William Bunch)
(Bunch)
Peetie Wheatstraw - vocal, w/Lonnie Johnson - gtr, unk acc.
March 26, 1937 Chicago, Decca 7391
Album: Peetie Wheatstraw Essentials Album
Allego Classic Blues CBL 200037
Transcriber: Awcantor@aol.com
Ev'rybody hollerin'
Here come that Peetie Wheatstraw!
Ev'rybody hollerin'
Here come that, Peetie Wheatstraw!
I better known for the Devil's Son-in-Law
Ev'rybody wonderin'
What's that Peetie Wheatstraw do?
Yee-hee-well, what's that Peetie Wheatstraw do?
But ev'rytime you hear him
He comin' out with somethin' new
(piano rag)
'Show 'em what Peetie Wheatstraw do, boy!'
He makes them happy
Some he make cry
Eee, makes them happy
Some that he make cry
But now he made a-one old lady
Go hang herself an die
(piano boogie)
This is Peetie Wheatstraw
I'm always in your line
This is Peetie Wheatstraw
Then again I'm always on your line
Save up your nickels and dimes
You can come up an see me sometime!
'Play us a little bit, boys'
(piano rag)
Spoken:
Now, good folks I say, if you got it, spend it.
Save your nickel an dimes
You can come up an see me sometimes.
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23. _ Tennessee Peaches Blues
Tennessee Peaches Blues Trk 2 Disc 1 3:00
Peetie Wheatstraw (William Bunch)
(Fields, Bunch)
vocal by Peetie Wheatstraw and 'Neckbones'
Chicago, Aug 13, 1930 Vocalion #1552-A
Album: Peetie Wheatstraw Essentials Album
Allego Classic Blues CBL 200037
Transcriber: Awcantor@aol.com
(Neckbones vocal vrs1-3)
I was born in Mississippi
Raised in Tennessee
I was born in Mississippi
An I's raised in Tennessee
But there wimens in Missour-a
Picks on over me
My babes have something
I don't know what it is
My babes have something
I don't know what it is
Ev'rytime she moves
Baby, now I can't be still
Said the peaches I'm loving
Don't grow on no trees
Lord, that peaches I'm loving
Don't grow on no trees
Lord, it's somewhere baby
Just above yo' knees
Well now, you said it's peaches you love
They don't grow on no trees
There another peaches you love
They'll grow on no tree
(Where they grow at?)
I b'lieve now you say
Peaches, now grow just above the knees
Well now, b'lieve I'll go
Back down in Tennessee
Right now I b'lieve I'll go
Back down in Tennessee
Well baby, that where the peaches grow, honey
Now just above the knee
Hoo-umm-umm
Hoo-well-well, so sweet
Hoo-hoo-umm
Babe, they're so smooth
Well-well-well, now
Hoo-hoo-ooo-ooo
In your grove
Peaches, growin' on no tree
Like the big wild peaches
Don't grow on no tree
Well, I b'lieve to my soul, now
'At's down in Tennessee.
(piano and guitar to end)
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24. _ Beer Tavern
Slave Man Blues Trk 14 Disc 1 2:47
Peetie Wheatstraw (William Bunch)
(Bunch)
Recorded: July 17, 1935 Decca 7111
Album: Peetie Wheatstraw Essentials Album
Allego Classic Blues CBL 200037
Transcriber: Awcantor@aol.com
How many mo' years
Baby, now will I be your slave?
I say, how many mo' years
Mama, now will I be your slave?
Well, now something been tellin' you
Woo-well, now I'm tired of you low down dirty ways
When I come home at night
Baby, ev'rything is wrong
When I come home at night
Mama, ev'rything is wrong
Now you sit keep company all day
Woo-well-well, your man he will be gone
I often tell you
To be careful what you do
Woo-hoo-well, brown
To be careful what you do
Well-now if it is right or wrong
Woo-well, somebody may tell on you
(piano - Peetie)
I tried to be a real man
But now it seems to be all in vain
Woo-hoo-ooo, girl
Seems to be all in vain
But now you know if tell on you, baby
Woo-well, now you going just the same
Can you tell me, babe
If you know just what right means?
Woo-well, brown
If you know just what right means?
Well, you are about the dumbest woman
Woo-well, then any woman I ever seen.
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25. _ Whiskey Head Blues
Whiskey Head Blues Trk 7 Disc 1 2:44
Peetie Wheatstraw (William Bunch)
(Bunch)
Jul 17, 1935 Decca 7111
Album: Peetie Wheatstraw Essentials Album
Allego Classic Blues CBL 200037
Transcriber: Awcantor@aol.com
I am drunk now
Will be sober after a while
Well, now I am drunk now
Will be sober after a while
Well now, if I don't get sober
Hoo-ooo-brown, please why don't you let me die?
My fairasee made me mad
Whiskey now is all I known
Well, my baby made me mad
Whiskey, I said is all I've known
Well, now if you don't want me, brown babe
Hm-mm-well, why in the world don't you let me go?
You known I drink whiskey
Now before we ever met
Well now she known I drink whiskey
Now before we ever met
And I'll guarantee, know right now
Um-um-well, that I'd been drinking whiskey yet
(piano)
Yes, I meant it, babe
Before I take this drink
Mm-mm, just remember babe
Before I take a drink
Well now, I wanna give you plenty time
Woo-well brown, now in this world to think
I am sorry, now
That I'm a whiskey-headed man
I say I'm sorry, now
That I'm a whiskey-headed man
But now I just want you go home
Hoo-well brown babe
Now do the best you can.
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26. _ These Times
These Times Trk 2 Disc 2 2:55
Peetie Wheatstraw (William Bunch)
(Bunch)
Peetie Wheatstraw - vocal, w/poss Charley Jordan - gtr
August 23, 1934 Chicago, Decca 7061
Album: Peetie Wheatstraw Essentials Album
Allego Classic Blues CBL 200037
Transcriber: Awcantor@aol.com
What do you say about the times?
I say ev'ry man can't understand
Now what do you say about the time?
I said, when a man can't understand
Now you can think you're gonna have good times
Woo-well-well, then hard times again
We wants to have a good times
Don't look like things will be that way no mo'
I said we wants to have a good time
Don't look like things gon' be that way no mo'
But now you know I believe there will be a day
Woo-well-well, good times will come walkin' to yo' do'
I've got to the place
Hard times don't worry me no mo'
I say, I've got to the place
Hard times don't worry me no mo'
Why? Because ev'rytime I go home
Woo-well-well, hard times standin' in my do'
Please now forget about the times
Don't you worry about them no mo'
I said, now forget about the times
Don't you worry 'bout them no mo'
Well now, you know you gon' keep be worried
Well-woo-woo, you be worried ev'ry place you go
Now, now gonna go home
But now don't seem like I can go
I said, now I wanna go home
But it don't seem like I can go
Now you know I can tell you people
Ooo-well-well, hard times just hangin' on my do'.
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27. _ Coon Can Shorty
Coon Can Shorty Trk 17 Disc 1 2:53
Peetie Wheatstraw (William Bunch)
(Jordan)
Peetie Wheatsraw - vocal & piano w/ Kokomo Arnold - gtr
Feb 18, 1936 Decca 7159
Album: Peetie Wheatstraw Essentials Album
Allego Classic Blues CBL 200037
Transcriber: Awcantor@aol.com
Well now, they call me Coon Can Shorty
The man from Coon Can Land
Yeah now, they call me Coon Can Shorty
The man from Coon Can Land
Well, I'm known to play the man
Hoo-well-well, the game they call Coon Can
My dice won't pass
Cards it only game you see
I said, my dice won't pass
Cards is the only the only game you see
An ev'ry chump in town
Hoo-well-well, seems to fall out on me
My babe give me money
Coon Can Shorty is my name
I said, my babe give me money
Coon Can Shorty is my name
A-before I lose her money
Hoo-well, I will spread dueces until I begin
But someday my dice gon' pass
An my money gon' be on the wood
Hm-hm-um-well, my money gon' be on the wood
Any chump in town
Hoo-hoo-well, they ain't gon' be no good
Some say they will coon the devil
If you chain him down
Some said they will coon the devil
If you chain him down
But now you know how good his sound
Ooo-well-well, if you come in this town.
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28. _ The Break I'm Getting
The Break I'm Getting Trk 3 Disc 1 2:53
Peetie Wheatstraw (William Bunch)
with Pretty Boy Walker
Album: Peetie Wheatstraw Essentials Album
Allego Classic Blues CBL 200037
Transcriber: Awcantor@aol.com
Now, listen here people
Think I'm tired of bein' a bum
For the breaks I'm gettin' now
I done got to be nothin' but a crumb
I've got tired
Of these breaks they givin' me
I'm gon' pack my grip
An I'm going back to Tennessee
Now, I walk all day
Can't find no work at all
I'm broke an' hungry all the winter
And ragg'dy all the fall
I walked all day
My feet got wet n' damp
I've been sufferin' two, three days
From the miss meal cramp
I was barefooted, naked
I was in the ice an snow
With all my yas-yas, out
You could see my big toe
I was barefooted
Didn't have on no shoes
And the rocks, gravel and concrete
Is givin' my soles the blues
An 'fore I'd let winter in St. Louis
Get the best of me
I'd get on a freight train an walk
Back to Memphis,Tennessee
'Cause I've done got tired
Of these breaks they givin' me
I'm gon' pack my grip
An I'm going back to Tennessee
Now other day I woked up
To a big healthy garbage can
And drugs my stiff back on it
Back of a natural man
I says, 'Razzy ham bone
And skanky muffin
Get back all your coffee grounds
Cause you know I ain't bluffin'
An 'fore I'd let winter in let St. Louis
Take advantage of me
I'd go back down south
Where all chumps oughta be
'Cause I've done got tired
Of these breaks they givin' me
I'm gon' pack my grip
And I'm goin' back to Tennessee
Now, I'm 'onna sing this verse
Now, ain't gon' sing any mo'
'Cause I'm gettin' kind-a warm
An you know I've got to go
I love to clown for ya'all
An I love to act a monkey
But I don't wanna get too hot
'Cause I'm scared I'm liable to get a bad cold
'Cause I done got tired
Of these breaks they givin' me
I'm 'onna pack my grip
And I'm goin' back to Tennessee.
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29. _ All Night Long
All Night Long Blues Trk 9 Disc 1 3:12
Peetie Wheatstraw (William Bunch)
(Bunch)
Recorded: March 15, 1932
Aug 18, 1934 Decca 7081
Album: Peetie Wheatstraw Essentials Album
Allego Classic Blues CBL 200037
Transcriber: Awcantor@aol.com
Stay out all night long
Now just to keep you off my mind
Stay out all night long
Babe, now-now keep you off my mind
Well now you keep me worried baby
In an alley barefoot all the time
Once was a good girl
Ain't no be that way no mo'
Now don't forget a day, baby
You drove me from yo' do'
Once was a good girl
They don't preach that way no mo'
An don't forget a girl, now little may matter
Babe, now you drove me from yo' do'
How do you feel
When you drive a good man from yo' do'?
How do you feel
When you drive a good man from yo' do'?
Well-well, now you must stop, look an listen
Maybe your best friend, you don't know
(piano)
Spoken:
When it's hard sometime when you get in bad luck.
Sometimes that a man don't know just what to do.
But I'm 'onna tell you what I'm 'onna do for myself
I'm 'on get me one .45, now I take care of myself then.
What would you do now, little mellow?
You come walking to my do'
An I will tell you about this
'Please don't come here no mo'
What would you do
If you come walkin' to my do'?
Well then I tell you
'Bye-bye, you not 'onna come here, no mo'
There's something I'll tell you
Don't turn a good man from your do'
Now there's far something I tell you
Don't drive a good man from your do'
Well-well, now you may need his help someday, baby
Hm-well-well, you don't know.
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30. _ You Can't Stop Me From Drinking
You Can't Stop Me From Drinking Trk 9 Disc 2 2:32
Peetie Wheatstraw (William Bunch)
(Jordan)
Peetie Wheatstraw - vocal, pno, (poss. Rhythm Willie Hood - hca
& poss. Lonnie Johnson - gtr
Sept. 14, 1939 Chicago, Decca 7692
Album: Peetie Wheatstraw Essentials Album
Allego Classic Blues CBL 200037
Transcriber: Awcantor@aol.com
You can't stop me from drinkin'
It ain't no use to try
You can't stop me from drinkin'
It ain't no use to try
Because the way you treated me
Hoo-hoo-well-well, I'm gonna drink until I die
You can't stop me from runnin' around
Also from having my ball
You can't stop me from runnin' around
Also from having my ball
Because I am tired, ooo-well-well
Of the other man kicking in my stall
(harmonica & instrumental)
You can't stop me from talkin'
To the brown walk-ups down the street
You can't stop from from talkin'
To the brown that walk up an down the street
Because you are chasing these peppers
Hoo-well, like a policeman on his beat
You can't stop me from drinkin'
Whenev' I feel so blue
You can't stop me from drinkin'
Whenev' I feel so blue
If you ever have been mistreated
Woo-well-well, you would be drinkin', too.
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31. _ Police Station Blues
Police Station Blues Trk 5 Disc 1 3:03
Peetie Wheatstraw (William Bunch)
(Wheatstraw)
March 15, 1932 Vocalion 1722
Album: Peetie Wheatstraw Essentials Album
Allego Classic Blues CBL 200037
Transcriber: Awcantor@aol.com
Well-oh-well
Mama, now on some old rainy day
Hoo-hoo-um-mm
Babe, I see you some old rainy day
Well-well now, you're gonna be sorry
Hoo-hoo-um-um
Babe, now you walked away
Well-well, sun did rose
Mama, now just before the trees
I said now when the sun broke
Ooo-um-mm, just a'fore the trees
Well, now I went to the police station, ask them
Plan on gettin' me my little girl, please
Now-now-now, your days so lonesome
Mama, yo nights so dreadful long
Hoo, times can run me down
Hee-hoo-umm
Babe, now yo' nights so dreadful long
Well-well, spent so many lonesome days
Hoo-hoo-well, babe since I been gone
(guitar)
Well, babe tomorrow is Sunday
Hoo-hoo-umm
Baby, you may see me Christmas Eve
Hoo-hoo-well, know the meaning
I said honey, now tomorrow Sunday
Hee-hoo-ooo, next day was Christmas Eve
Well-well, have I got a present mama, babe
Und' your lil' Christmas tree?
Baby now, when are you gon' give me
Hoo-hoo-umm
Mama now things you promised me?
(Know the kind) know now I mean it
Hee-hee-umm
Mama now things you promised me?
Well-well, you know I don't see why
Baby now, you so hard on me.
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32. _ Poor Millionaire
Poor Millionaire Trk 13 Disc 1 2:54
Peetie Wheatstraw
(Smith, Bunch)
Peetie Wheatstraw - vocal, piano w/ poss. Robert Lee McCoy - gtr
Recorded: Feb 20,1936 Decca 7177
Album: Peetie Wheatstraw Essentials Album
Allego Classic Blues CBL 200037
Transcriber: Awcantor@aol.com
When a man is down
He's lucky he ain't got no friends at all-a
I said when a man is down
Seem like ain't no friends at all
It seem like ev'rybody
Wants to knock him around like he's an old ball
When it comes to women
He can't have no luck at all, oh
I said, when he comes to women
He can't have no luck at all, no
They want to put a halter on him
Hoo-well, then tie him up like a mule in his stall
When he go around a used to be woman
One you have to give a real good time
When he go around a used to be woman
One you have give a real good time
And again
You know if he had the poor savvy
If she got a dollar she will swear that she ain't got a dime
When he walk in to see his old gang
Which whom he used to drink
When he walk in to see his old gang
Which whom he used to drink
Well, if he ask them for a little taste
Ooo-well, they'll say, 'Oh, that's just what you think'
Now men when you are down
One thing you must do
Yeah, when you are down
One thing you must do
When you get up
Start to remember ev'rybody that mistreated you.
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33. _ Cocktail Man Blues
Cocktail Man Blues Trk 7 Disc 2 2:44
Peetie Wheatstraw (William Bunch)
(Bunch, Smith)
Peetie Wheatstraw - vocal, pno.
July 17, 1935 Chicago, Decca 7144
Album: Peetie Wheatstraw Essentials Album
Allego Classic Blues CBL 200037
Transcriber: Awcantor@aol.com
Good morning, people
Just got back from cocktail land
Good morning, people
Just got back from cocktail land
When I find my little woman
Ooo-well, we gonna raise some cocktail sand
When I got up this mornin'
Went down in old alley can
I got up this mornin'
Went down in old alley can
And the womens they was hollerin'
Hoo-well, 'Here come that little cocktail man'
They cry, 'Cocktails for two'
Now that is all it can be
Cryin', 'Cocktails for two'
Baby that's all it can be
Now if you got plenty of cocktail
Please save a 'tall' for me
(piano)
I'm a good cocktail monsieur
Well, you know I start it all with a feather
Um-hm, babe said I start it off with a feather
Now won't you come here little mama
Please now let's serve our cocktails together
Well now, it ain't no trouble
When I watch your crowd the best I can
I say, I ain't no trouble
I will watch your crowd the best I can
But now when it come to missing cocktails
Hoo-well, here's a little cocktail man.
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34. _ You Got To Tell Me Something
You Got To Tell Me Something Trk 14 Disc 2
Peetie Wheatstraw (William Bunch)
(Williams)
Peetie Wheatstraw - vocal, Lil Armstrong - piano, Robert McCoy - hmc
March 12, 1941 Chicago, Decca 7844
Album: Peetie Wheatstraw Essentials Album
Allego Classic Blues CBL 200037
Transcriber: Awcantor@aol.com
You gon' come home
Find yourself locked out
Box car gon' bump ya
And it ain't no doubt
You've gotta tell me something
Gotta tell me something
You've gotta tell me something
How to get along with you?
I got you in dead winter
Snow was fallin' down
Shoes had no bottom
Yo' big feet on the ground
You've gotta tell me something
Gotta tell me something
You've gotta tell me something
How to get along with you?
You go to bed here, lately
You tied up yo' hair
I accident'l touch ya
Now you's worser than a bear
You've gotta tell me something
Gotta tell me something
You've gotta tell me something
How to get along with you?
(piano & harmonica)
You used to get my money
By ticklin' my chin
Now you've got to thrill me
Like you do other men
You've gotta tell me something
You've gotta tell me something
You've gotta tell me something
How to get along with you?
You've gotta show me somthin'
Ev'rything you can do
I ev'n got tired
Of spending my money on you
You've gotta tell me something
You better tell me something
You've gotta tell me something
How to get along with you?
(piano & harmonica)
When I got home
She had gone to bed
An these are the lovin'
Words she said
You gotta tell me something
You gotta tell me something
You've gotta tell me something
How to get along with you?
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35. _ Little House (I'm Gonna Chase These Peppers)
Little House (I'm Gonna Chase These Peppers) Trk 12 Disc 1 2:42
Peetie Wheatstraw
(Bunch)
Peetie Wheatstraw - vocal, Kokomo Arnold - gtr, unk sbs
Recorded: Oct 26,1936 Decca 7257
Album: Peetie Wheatstraw Essentials Album
Allego Classic Blues CBL 200037
Transcriber: Awcantor@aol.com
The little house over yonder
With the do's all painted green
The little house over yonder
With the do's all painted green
That's my little woman's house near the corner
Woo-well-well, where you don't see no screen
My cat is got the measles
Dog is got the whooping cough
My cat is got the measles
An my dog got the whooping cough
You might as well to be's the woman
Ooo-well-well, because I'm gonna be you boss
You can always tell
When your woman is gonna throw you down
You can always tell
When your woman gon' throw you down
She's always got business
Woo-well-well, on the other side of town
Now, I ain't gon' marry
An I ain't gon' settle down
I ain't gon' marry
An I ain't gon' settle down
I'm going to stay right here
Woo-well-well, an run these peppers down
I am going to Chicago
To get my ham bone boiled
I am going to Chicago
An get my ham bone boiled
Because these St. Louis women
Woo-well, going to let my ham bone spoil.
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