Mississippi Bottom Blues

Kid Bailey

Recorded at Peabody Hotel in Memphis, Tennessee, Sept. 25, 1929

Kid Bailey vcl/gtr; unknown vcl/gtr

Brunswick Records M-209/10 Br-7114

Way down in Mississippi where I was bred and born
Reason that will forever be my native home

And my poor mother's old, Lord, and her hair is turning grey
And my poor mother's old, Lord, and her hair is turning grey
I know it would break her heart if she found I was barrelhousing this way

And I'm going to where now the water drink like wine
I'm going to where now the water drink like wine
Where I can be drunk there and staggering all the time

And it ain't but the one thing now, Lord, that worries my mind
It ain't, ain't but the one thing now, Lord, that worries my mind
That's a house full of women, Lord, none in there is mine

And my friend passed me and she never said a word
And my friend passed me and she never said a word
Nothing I had did but was something she had heard

Rowdy Blues

Kid Bailey

Recorded at Peabody Hotel in Memphis, Tennessee, Sept. 25, 1929

Kid Bailey vcl/gtr; unknown vcl/gtr

Brunswick Records M-211 Br-7114

Ain't going to marry, neither settle down
I'm going to stay right here till they hear this barrelhouse down

And I love you babe and I tell the world I do
And I love you babe and I tell the world I do
I don't love nobody whole in this round world but you

Ain't no use of weeping, ain't no need of crying
Ain't no use of weeping, ain't no need of crying
For you've got a home just as long as I got mine

Is you ever been lucky, now, woke up cold in hand
Is you ever been lucky, woke up cold in hand
I would call that now nothing but a monkey-man

And I love you baby, you so nice and brown
And I love you baby, you so nice and brown
Because you put it up solid, so it won't come down

Did you get that letter, now, mailed in your back yard
Did you get that letter, now, mailed in your back yard
It's a sad word to say, but the best of friend have to part