Welfare Store Blues — текст песни (Sonny Boy Williamson I)

Welfare Store Track #14 2:48

Sonny Boy Williamson I (John Lee)

(Walter Roland - `Red Cross Blues`)

John Lee Williamson - vocal and harmonica

with Joshua Altheimer - piano, Fred Williams - drums

Chicago May 17, 1940

Album: `Sugar Mama`

The Essential Recordings of Sonny Boy Williamson

Indigo Recording Ltd IGOCD 2014

Transcriber: Awcantor@aol.com





(harmonica intro)



Now me an my baby we talked late last night

An we talked for another hour

She wanted me to go down to the welfare sto`

And get a sack a-that welfare flour



But I told her, `No`

`Baby an I sho` don`t wanna go`

I said, `I`ll do anything in the world for you

I don`t wanna go down to that welfare sto`



Now, you need to go get you some real, white man

You know, to sign yo` little note

They give ya a pair of them king-toed shoes

I want no a-them pleat-back, soldier coat



But I told `er, `No`

`Baby an I sho` don`t wanna go

I say, `I`ll do anything in the world for ya

`But I don`t wanna go down to that welfare sto`



(harmonica, drums, guitar)



President Roosevelt said, on welfare people

They gonna treat ev`ryone right

Said, they give ya a can of them beans

An a can or two of them old tripe



But I told `er, `No`

`Baby, an I sho` don`t wanna go

I say, `I`ll do anything in the world for ya

`But I don`t wanna go down to that welfare sto`, now



Well now, me an my baby we talked yesterday

An we talked in my backyard

She said, `I`ll take care-a you, Sonny Boy

Just as long as these times stay hard`

An I told her, `Yeah, baby an I sho` won`t have to go`



I said, `If you do that for me

I won`t have to go down to that welfare sto`.