Hustlin' Dan

Hustlin' Dan - Bessie Smith

Listen sportin' fellas

All you brown and black girls too

Tell you 'bout a black man

Best that ever wore a shoe

Hustlin' Dan he was my man

Talk about your lover

He can more than satisfy me

Master of my weakness

Everything a man could be

Hustlin' Dan oh he's my man

He was one good gambler

He would gamble anywhere

Knows the game and plays it

Always plays it on the square

Hustlin' Dan yes he's my man

Yes he was a hustler

Round us calls him Hustlin' Dan

Born down on the levee

Was a rough and tumble man

Hustlin' Dan

Mmm he's my man

He got sick one mornin'

Just about the break of day

He be was the him

Had to send my man away;

Hustlin' Dan he was my man

While he was in Dimsville

Spending money all the time

Prayed to the Lord above me

"Please don't take that man o' mine

Hustlin' Dan Lord he's my man "

Since he's gone and left me

Bought myself a big forty four

Gonna join my good man

I don't wanna live no more

Hustlin' Dan Lord he's my man