Salt Lake City Blues (Take 2)

By Papa Charlie Jackson (1991)
On album Presenting Papa Charlie Jackson (1924), Papa Charlie Jackson Vol. 1 (1924 - 1926) (1991), The Complete Recorded Works 1924-1934 (2011)

Presenting Papa Charlie Jackson
Sweet woman left me, Lord, and I don't know why
Sweet woman left me, babe, and I don't know why
So I better start to thinkin' 'cause it's no use, babe, to cry

Because a woman is one thing you can't understand
Lord, a woman is one thing you can't understand
When you think she's lovin' you, she's quittin' you for some other man

Goin' back to Salt Lake City, here ain't no place for me
Goin' back to Salt Lake City, t'ain't no place for me
Goin' back to Salt Lake City, where the women won't let me be

You have a wife in the morning, Lord, a wife at night
You have a wife in the morning, Lord, a wife at night
And always a substitute to take her place if she's out of sight

I'm leaving here tonight, if I have to ride the blinds
I'm leaving here tonight, if I have to ride the blinds
Take a freight train special, tell the engineer, lose no time

Now the jinx all on me, all over this town
Now the jinx all on me, all over this town
That's the reason why I'm Salt Lake City bound

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