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LINES FROM THE BLUES
Woman Blues
It's so cold and shiny till the birds can't hardly sing,
I wouldn't hate it so much, but she soak my diamond ring.
Then I asked the doctor to give me some strychnine,
To stop that brown-skinned woman from rollin' 'cross my mind.
The doctor told me to lay my head on Jay Gould's railroad iron, And 1009 would ease my trouble' mind.
I been drinkin' plenty sody water to keep my nature down, And you know when I get started I'm hell, hell all over town.
I ain't no monkey and you never seen me climb no tree, I can't see why you want to make a monkey outa me.
It was late last night when I fell across my bed,
I didn't have no pretty baby to hold my achin' head.
"Don't you mistreat her because she's young and wild, I want you to remember that you've once been a child."
Goin' to snatch me a palin' off my back-yard fence, Goin' whale my baby till she learn some sense.
I went down to the depot and looked upon the board, Asked the operator which way my brown-skin woman go.
He says, "If you'll 'scribe yo' woman, I'll tell you which way she's gone." I says, "She's a seal-skinned brown, chocolate to the bone."
My woman "got a tooth and it glisten in the sun, Soon as she git able, gonna give me one.
Don' write no letter, telegram may get lef', I want to see you, baby, talk with you myself.
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