New Strangers Blues

New Strangers Blues - Tampa Red

I'm a stranger here just blowed in your town

I'm a stranger here just blowed in your town

Just because I'm a stranger everybody wants to dog me around

Lord I wonder do my good gal know I'm here

Lord I wonder do my good gal know I'm here

Well if she do she sure don't seem to care

I wonder how can some people dog a poor stranger so

I wonder how can some people dog a poor stranger so

They should remember they gonna reap what they sow

Mama I would stay up North but there's nothing here that I can do

I would stay up North but there's nothing here that I can do

But hang around this corner and sing the poor stranger's blues

Mama I am going back south if I wear ninety nine pair of shoes

I am going back south if I wear ninety nine pair of shoes

Then I know I'll be welcome and I won't have the stranger's blues