The Bourgeois Blues (1938) Lead Belly

[Intro]
Aw in a bourgeois man
Livin' in a bourgeois town
I got the bourgeois blues
And I'm sure gonna spread the news all around

[Spoken]
Yes, I'm gonna spread it, everywhere I go. I just saw a man about "Bourgeois Blues". I and Miss Monica and Mr. Alan Lomax, and his wife and my wife we's riding 'round over Washington D.C. And anything you want to know about Washington, D.C. please talk to me 'cause I can tell you about it

We rode all around in the rain. No colored people would let me in 'cause I was with a white man. And thats a bourgeois place 'cause its scared to let in colored people if they're with white people

[Verse 1]
Me an Miss Monica, went on town
I heard a colored man say you can't come around
He's a bourgeois man
Woo living in a bourgeois town
I got the bourgeois blues
And I'm sure ugonna spread the news

[Spoken]
We went in a colored fellow's place, wanted to eat something. He had beer there, too. And we wanted to eat some food, but I had so many white people with me, he wouldn't let me in. But he told me just before I left, the colored woman did, that, when I come back
And bring some white men I couldn't eat. But I got back I found the man, he was the manager. I asked him, he wouldn't say nothin' but he just nod his head. But he shook it know that she couldn't stand there. And one of the boys with me was worth $90,000. His name was Kip Keeler. That's a bourgeois town. But we leave

[Verse 2]
Me and Martha, standing upstairs
I heard a white man say "I don't want no niggers up there"
He's a bourgeois man
Woo, livin' in a bourgeois town
I got the bourgeois blues
And I'm sure gonna spread the news all around