Working Man Blues

Working Man Blues - Sleepy John Estes

Written by：Oliver Hardin/John Estes

Now you done spent all my 1940 rent

Woman you done worked on my substitute

Now you done spent all my 1940 rent

Woman you done worked on my substitute

Then if you don't wait 'til 1941

Whoo babe what in the world you gonna do

Now they oughta cut out so many trucks and tractors

White folks you oughta work more mules and men

Now you oughta cut out so many trucks and tractors

White folks you oughta work more mules and men

Tell him bys

Then you know

That what is it mean

Why

Whoo boy money get thick again

Now when a man gets through gatherin'

You know he's turned his stocks in the field

Now when a man gets through gatherin'

You know he's turned his stocks in the field

He said go sell his corn and buy gas

Whoo boys put it in the automobile

Now I been studyin'

I been wonderin'

What make a man turn the ground

In the wintertime

Now I been studyin'

I been wonderin'

What make a man turn the ground

In the wintertime

You know let the snow and rain rot the grass

Whoo boy that make fertilizer for the ground

Now the government given us a school in Brownsville

Boys you know I think that's very nice

Now the government given us a school in Brownsville

Boys you know I think that's very nice

You know the children can go in the daytime

Whoo boy the old folks have it at night