Bourgeois Blues

(huddie ledbetter/alan lomax)

(g7) - (c7) - (g) - (d7)



(g7) me and my wife went all over town

And everywhere we went people turned us down

Lord, in a (c7) bourgeois town

It's a (g) bourgeois town

I got the (d7) bourgeois blues

Gonna spread the news all a- (g) round



Home of the brave, land of the free

I don't wanna be mistreated by no bourgeoisie

Lord, in a bourgeois town

Uhm, the bourgeois town

I got the bourgeois blues

Gonna spread the news all around



Well, me and my wife we were standing upstairs

We heard the white man say