Strange Man Blues Trk 4
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Peetie Wheatstraw (William Bunch)
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Recorded: late 1930.
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Vocalion Records, Chicago
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Document Records Vol 1 5241 (1994)
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Transcriber: [email protected]
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Strange man
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I just stopped in yo' town
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Well-well, I'm a strange man
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An I just stopped in your town
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I might be the stranger
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Please, please, don't turn me down
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Well-well, I'm a stranger here, baby
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Now, an I'm along way from home
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Well, I'm a stranger here, little mama
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And I'm a long ways from home
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Well-well-well, I've been mistreated now, my little mama
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Hoo-umm, since I been gone
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Well-well, mistreat me here, baby
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Hon, you can't when I go home
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Well-well, you mistreat me now, little mama
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I know you can't when I go home
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Well-well-well, you mistreat me there, baby
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Honey, now you all alone
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Well-well, run here, little mama
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Please sit down on my knee
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Well-well, right here, little mama
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Please sit down on my knee
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Well-well, let me tell you, baby
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Hoo-um, how you treating me
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Well-well-well, you treated me dirty, mama
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Baby, now you treat me mean
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Um-hm-um, treated me dirty
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Mama, now you treat me mean
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Well-well-well, you treat me like, little mama
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The man, now you never seen
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Well-well-well, it may be a week, babe
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Maybe ready month or two
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Hm-hm-hm, maybe the week
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Maybe ready month or two
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I ain't but nothin', the way you treat me, mama
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Hoo-hoo-ooo, it's all comin' home to you.
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Strange Man Blues
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