The Bourgeois Blues - Leadbelly
[Introduction]
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[Verse 1]
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Me'n my wife, went all over town
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Everywhere we go the people would turn us down
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Lawd in a bourgeois town,
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Hee it's a bourgeois town,
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I got the bourgeois blues, I'm gonna spread the news all around
[Verse 2]
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Me an' Marthy we was standing upstairs
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I heard a white man say "I don't want no niggers up there"
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Lawd he's a bourgeois man
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Hee it's a bourgeois town,
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I got the bourgeois blues, I'm gonna spread the news all around
[Verse 3]
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Home of the brave land of the free
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I don't wanna be mistreated by no bourgeoisie
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Lawd in a bourgeois town
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Hee it's a bourgeois town,
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I got the bourgeois blues, I'm gonna spread the news all around
[Instrumental]
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[Verse 4]
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Me'n my wife went all over town.
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Everywhere we go the colored people would turn us down
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Lawd in a bourgeois town
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Hee it's a bourgeois town,
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I got the bourgeois blues, I'm gonna spread the news all around
[Verse 5]
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The white folks in Washington they know how
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Chuck a colored man a nickel just to see him bow
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Lawd in a bourgeois town
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Hee it's a bourgeois town,
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I got the bourgeois blues, I'm gonna spread the news all around
[Verse 6]
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Tell all the colored folks to listen to me
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Don't try to buy no home in Washington D.C.
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'Cause it's a bourgeois town
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Hee it's a bourgeois town
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I got the bourgeois blues an' I'm gonna spread the news
[Outro]
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