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No time to marry, no time to settle down;
I'm a young woman, and I ain't done runnin' around.
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It's a long old road, but I know I'm gonna find the end.
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When my bed is empty,
Makes me feel awful mean and blue.
My springs are getting rusty,
Living single like I do.
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My mind is like a rowboat out on the stormy sea, He's with me right now, in the morning, where will he be?
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You can say what you please, you will miss me
There's a lot of things you are bound to see, When your friends forsake you and your money's gone
Then you'll look around, all your clothes in pawn
Down on your knees, you'll ask for me, There's no one else you will want to see Then you'll pray a prayer that men pray everywhere, Lord When your good woman is gone.
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Lord, I went to the gypsy to get my fortune told She said, "You in hard luck, doggone your bad luck soul."
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I don't mind being in jail, but I got to stay there so long, When every friend I had is done shook hands and gone.
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Poor man's wife is starvin',
Your wife's livin' like a queen.
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When it thunders and lightning, and the wind begin to blow There's thousands of people ain't got no place to go Backwater blues done caused me to pack my things and go 'Cause my house fell down and I can't live there no more.
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Born:
April 15, 1894
Died:
September 26, 1937
(aged 43)
Bio:
Bessie Smith was an American blues singer. Nicknamed the Empress of the Blues, she was the most popular female blues singer of the 1920s and 1930s.
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