Bourgeois Blues

[00:00.14] Now this song is the "Bourgeois Blues"
[00:03.39] By the great Lead Belly
[00:05.93] Written in a 1938
[00:19.28] Me and my wife
[00:21.61] Went all over town
[00:24.36] And everywhere we went
[00:26.75] People turned us down
[00:29.26] Lord, in a bourgeois town
[00:33.43] Ooh, it's a bourgeois town
[00:37.35] I got the bourgeois blues
[00:41.13] Gonna spread the news all around
[00:49.02] Home of the brave
[00:51.74] Land of the free
[00:53.80] I don't wanna be mistreated by no bourgeoisie
[00:58.90] Lord, in a bourgeois town
[01:03.01] Ooh, it's a bourgeois town
[01:07.02] I got the bourgeois blues
[01:10.93] Gonna spread the news all around
[01:15.89] Well, me and my wife
[01:18.48] We were standing upstairs
[01:21.17] We heard the white man say
[01:23.25] "I don't want no niggas up there"
[01:26.00] Lord, in a bourgeois town
[01:30.13] Ooh, it's a bourgeois town
[01:34.34] I got the bourgeois blues
[01:38.36] Gonna spread the news all around
[01:45.59] Well, them white folks in Washington
[01:49.08] Sure know how
[01:51.20] To call a colored man a nigga
[01:53.49] Just to see him bow
[01:55.86] Lord, in a bourgeois town
[01:59.94] Ooh, it's a bourgeois town
[02:04.29] I got the bourgeois blues
[02:08.29] Gonna spread the news all around
[02:15.23] I tell the colored folks
[02:17.60] "Y'all listen to me
[02:20.66] Don't try to find you no home in Washington, DC
[02:25.79] 'Cause it's a bourgeois town"
[02:29.67] Ooh, it's a bourgeois town
[02:33.79] I got the bourgeois blues
[02:37.45] Gonna spread the news all around
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