Blues in the Night

Blues In The Night - Dinah Washington

My mamma done told me

When I was in pigtails

My mamma done told me "hon

A man is a two-face

He'll give you the big eye

And when the sweet talking's done

A man is a two-face

A worrisome thing who'll leave you to sing

The blues in the night "

Now the rains a-fallin'

Hear the trains a-callin' "whooee "

My mama done tol' me

Hear dat lonesome whistle

Blowin' 'cross the trestle whooee

My mama done tol' me a-whooee-ah-whooee

Ol' clickety-clack's a-echoin'

Back th' blues in the night

The evenin' breeze'll start the trees to cryin'

And the moon'll hide it's light

When you get the blues in the night

Take my word the mockingbird'll sing

The saddest kind o' song

He knows things are wrong

And he's right

From Natchez to Mobile from Memphis to St Joe

Wherever the four winds blow

I been in some big towns an' heard me some big talk

But there is one thing I know

A man's a two-face

A worrisome thing who'll leave ya to sing

The blues in the night