My Laona Blues
My Laona Blues - Teddy Darby
Guitar in E position, standard tuning, Roosevelt Sykes, piano
(Instrumental opening line)
You can mistreat me, baby, drive me from your door
But the Good Book say you got to reap just what you sow.
Mama told me, she hung her head and cried
Uh my mother she told me, hung her head and cried
Says, "Some woman's gonna be the death of my only child."
Get a good woman, do pin her to your side
If you get a good woman, do pin her to your side
For these women don't know nothing but slide, oh slide, back-slide
Get a good man, woman, treat him nice in every way
If you get a good man, woman, treat him nice in every way
For a wife to tell you a good man ain't found every day
Men and women equally on the square
(Instrumental) equally on the square
You can't find good men and women everywhere
Treat me good, baby, I'll stop my barrelhouse ways
If you treat me good, baby, I'll stop my barrelhouse ways
If you don't treat me good I'll barrelhouse all my days
Catch you a Market car, transfer to the Broadway line
Catch you a Market car, transfer to the Broadway line
Forty-two-hundred South, find your daddy peepin' through the blinds.