Married Man Blues
Blind Joe (Willie) Reynolds
Recorded in Memphis, Tennessee, Nov. 26, 1930
Victor Records 64721 -2 Vi-23258
When you lose your money please don't lose your mind
When you lose your money please don't lose your mind
When you lose your woman please don't fool with mine
Tell you married men how to keep your wives at home
Tell you married men how to keep your wives at home
Get you a job and roll for the man and try to carry your labor home, hmm, hmm, try to carry your labor home
Tell you married women how to keep your husband at home
Tell you married women how to keep your husband at home, hmm, hmm
Take care of your husband's labor and let these singles boys alone
Makes a single woman crazy about a married man
What make a single woman crazy about a married man
'Cause he works all the time, he puts money in her hand
Make a married woman so crazy about a single man, hmm, hmm
Makes a married woman so crazy about a single man
Because the husband might lay down and die and leave the fellow to her hand
Let me tell you, men, what those married women will do
Let me tell you, boy, what those married women will do
She will get your money, she will cut-curl up to you
Tell you this, men, ain't going to tell nothing else
Tell you this, men, ain't going to tell nothing else
Man's a fool if he thinks he's got a whole woman by himself |
Nehi Blues
Blind Joe (Willie) Reynolds
Recorded in Grafton, Wisconsin, c. Feb 1930
Paramount Records L-146-2 Pm-12927
Some girls wear short dresses, some of these married women wear them too
Some girls wear short dresses, some of these married women wear them too
That's the reason we single men, Lord, don't know what we wants to do
Wish the proper judge would make these women let their dresses down
Wish the proper judge would make these women let their dresses down
So there'd quit being so doggone much of murdering in town
When they pass the law pulling the short dress down
When they pass the law pulling the short dress down
So we single men can tell a married woman from a child
Let me tell you boys what these knee-high dresses will do
Let me tell you boys what these knee-high dresses will do
Get you broke, naked and hungry, boys, then come down on you
All of you women sure, Lord, ought to be ashamed
All of you young women sure, Lord, ought to be ashamed
Taking these old men's money when they walking on walking canes
A old man ain't nothing but a young woman's slave
A old man ain't nothing but a young woman's slave
They work hard all the time trying to stay in these young men's ways |
Outside Woman Blues
Blind Joe (Willie) Reynolds
Recorded in Grafton, Wisconsin, c. Feb 1930
Paramount Records L144-3 Pm-12927
When you lose your money, please, God, don't lose your mind
When you lose your money, please, God, don't lose your mind
And when you lose your woman please don't fool with mine
I'm going to buy me a bulldog, watch my old lady whilst I sleep
I'm going to buy me a bulldog, watch my old lady whilst I sleep
Because women these days is so doggone crooked till they *might* make a 'fore-day creep
Tell you married men how to keep your wives at home
Tell you married men how to keep your wives at home
Just do a job, roll for the man, and try to carry your labour home
Tell you married women how to keep your husbands at home
Tell you married women how to keep your husbands at home
You want to take care of the man's labour and let these single boys alone
You can't watch your wife and your outside woman too
You can't watch your wife and your outside woman too
While you're off with you woman your wife could be at home beating you doing buddy what you trying to do |
Third Street Woman Blues
Blind Joe (Willie) Reynolds
Recorded in Memphis, Tennessee, Nov. 26, 1930
Victor Records 64724-2 Vi-23258
Hmm, come my Third Street woman now
Hmm, come my Third Street woman now
But the way she treats me that's the coldest stuff in town
Don't like my chick… [miscue]
I had so much chicken till I heard her clucking in my sleep
I had so much chicken till I heard her clucking in my sleep
Now it's don't like my 'taters mama, please don't dig so deep
Hmm hmm, I got a... [miscue]
Hmm, She's a big fat mama with the meat shaking on her bones
She's a big fat mama with the meat shaking on her bones
And every time she shake it, Lord, a hustling woman lose her home
She got something that the men call a stingaree
She got something that the men call a stingaree
Four o'clock every morning she turn it loose on me
Hmm, where my Third Street woman gone
Hmm, where my Third Street woman gone
Believe to my soul she will hustle everywhere but home
If you can't do my rolling, mama, you can't spend your change
If you can't do my rolling, mama, you can't spend my change |
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