My mama done tol me, when I was in pig tails My mama done tol me, hone A man is a two-face, he’ll give you the big eye And when the sweet talkings done A man is a two-face, a worrisome thing who’ll leave ya to sing The blues in the night
Now the rains a-fallin, hear the trains a-callin, "whooee!" Hear that lonesome whistle blowin cross the trestle, "whooee!" a-whooee-ah-whooee, clickety-clack a-echoin back Blues in the night
From Natchez to mobile, from Memphis to St. Joe, wherever the four winds blow I been in some big towns and heard me some big talk, but there is one thing I know A man is a two-face, a worrisome thing who’ll leave ya to sing The blues in the night
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My mama done tol me, when I was in pig tails My mama done tol me, hone A man is a two-face, he’ll give you the big eye And when the sweet talkings done A man is a two-face, a worrisome thing who’ll leave ya to sing The blues in the night