Six Weeks Old Blues Trk12
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Peetie Wheatstraw (William Bunch)
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w/Charlie Jordan, acc.
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Recorded: January 1931
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Album: Document Records 5241 (1994)
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Transcriber: [email protected]
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Now, now, now
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My mama jus' told me
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When I was nearly, six weeks old
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I tell ya, my mama she tol' me
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When I was nearly, six weeks old
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She said, 'Son, now when you get
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six weeks old now, mama, now gon'
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set yo' clothes outdo's
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Well, well, I looked at my mama
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Baby, I began to smile
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Well, well, now looked at mama
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Baby, I began to smile
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Mama now, good times kill me
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Do not leave your poor boy die
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Sometimes I'd weep
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Then get up and moan and moan at dawn
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I said, sometimes I'd weep
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Then I'd get out and moan like a mornin' dove
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Mama, now you know your life not worth livin'
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Well, we're not with the woman you love
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Mama, now I'm gon' leave here walking
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Mama, now got creep crepe on my do'
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Well, well, gon' leave here walking
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Say now, you can see crepe on my do'
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How will I know I won't be dead?
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But now, I'm not comin' here no mo'
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When I die
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Could I, please bury my body low?
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Well, when I, when I die
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Mama, won't ya bury my body low?
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So, now that my evil spirit
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Mama, they won't hang a-round yo' do'.
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Six Weeks Old Blues
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| Peetie Wheatstraw |
