Тексты песен «Bessie Smith»

You say that you leavin' ant that you going away But before you leave, dear, please let me have my say I know that you feel good now with nothin' on your mind But just mark my words, dear, there'll come a time I know...

Judge you wanna hear my plea Before you open up your court But I don't want no sympathy 'Cause I done cut my good man's throat I caught him whith a trifling Jane I warned him 'bout before I had my knife and went insane...

Captain, tell your men to get on board I sure see 'em just pull into another shore I'm dreary in mind and I'm so worried in heart Oh, the best of friends sho' has got to part Blow your whistle captain, so your...

Daddy, you've been doggone sweet on me, daddy, you the only one I see You know I need but you 'cause you my man, you can love me like no one can Something 'bout you I can't resist, and when you kiss me, daddy, I stay...

Worried in the nighttime, worried in the day 'Cause another sweetie, took my man away Down in St. Louis, there I lost my pride and joy St. Louis woman, stole the heart of my big boy, I'm cryin'! St. Louis gal, just...

Standin' in the rain and ain't a drop fell on me Standin' in the rain and ain't a drop fell on me My clothes is all wet but my flesh is as dry as can be It can rain all day, I ain't got no place to go It can rain...

You're my man, you're so nice and brown Sweetest man in this town I heard you say you was goin' away And leave me here to stay I feel like I could cry And here's the reason why Daddy, you really know your stuff...

Come along, get you ready Wear your bran', bran' new gown For there's gwine to be a meeting In that good, good old town Where you knowded everybody And they all knowded you And you've got a rabbit's foot To keep away de...

Did you ever sit thinking with a thousand things on your mind? Did you ever sit thinking with a thousand things on your mind? Thinking about someone who has treated you so nice and kind You'll get an old letter and...

Tillie Brown was a dancing fool Spent her time in a dancing school When the band would play Tillie would start right in to sway First one out on the ballroom floor She never got enough, she just craved for more When she...

Papa, papa, you in a good man's way Papa, papa, you in a good man's way I can find one better than you any time of day You ain't no good so you better haul your freight You ain't no good, you better haul your...

This blues by Bessie Smith was recorded on October 1, 1929 in New York, with James P. Johnson at the piano. I lived a life but nothing I've gained Each day I'm full of sorrow and pain No one seems enough for poor me To...

Ever since Miss Susie Johnson Lost her jockey Lee There has been much excitement And more to be You can hear her moanin' Moanin' night and morn She's wonderin' where her Easy rider's gone Cablegrams goes off...

The blues, the blues, the yodling blues They seem to haunt me all the time Because that I ain't got no one That will console my mind It seems to me no happiness will I ever find No happiness will I find Lord, lord,...

Written by S. Williams and recorded by Bessie in 1929. Loving is the thing I crave For your love I'll be your slave You gotta give me some, yes give me some Can't you hear me pleading, you gotta give me some Said mister...

Woke up this mornin' when chickens was crowin' for day Felt on the right side of my pilla', my man gad gone away By this pilla' he left a note readin', "I'm sorry, Jane, you got my goat No time to marry, no time to...