Young Woman's Blues

Young Woman's Blues - Bessie Smith

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 settle down"

I'm a young woman and

Ain't done runnin' 'round

I'm a young woman and

Ain't done runnin' 'round

Some people call me a

Hobo

Some call me a bum

Nobody knows my name

Nobody knows what I've done

I'm as good as any woman in your town

I ain't no

High yeller

I'm a killer deep of brown

I ain't gonna marry

Ain't gonna settle down

I'm gonna drink good

Moonshine

And rub these browns down

See that long lonesome road

Lawd you know it's gotta and

I'm a good woman and I can get plenty men