Bessie Smith - Dyin' by the Hour Lyrics

Lyrics Dyin' by the Hour - Bessie Smith



It's an old story, every time it's a doggone man
It's an old story, every time it's a doggone man
But when that thing is gone you
You just drift from hand to hand
I'd drink up all this acid, if it wouldn't burn me so
I'd drink up all this acid, if it wouldn't burn me so
Then telephone the devil, that's the only place I'd go
Once I weighed two hundred, I'm nothin' but skin and bone
Once I weighed two hundred, I'm nothin' but skin and bone
I would always laugh, but it's nothin' but a moan and a groan
Lord, I'm dyin' by the hour about that doggone man of mine
I'm dyin' by the hour 'bout that doggone man of mine
He said he didn't love me, that is why I'm dyin' an' losin' my mind



Writer(s): Brooks


Bessie Smith - Bessie Smith: The Complete Recordings, Vol. 3
Album Bessie Smith: The Complete Recordings, Vol. 3
date of release
22-10-1992

1 Red Mountain Blues
2 Golden Rule Blues
3 Lonesome Desert Blues
4 Them "Has Been" Blues
5 Squeeze Me
6 What's the Matter Now
7 I Want Every Bit of It
8 Jazzbo Brown From Memphis Town
9 The Gin House Blues
10 Money Blues
11 Baby Doll
12 Hard Driving Papa
13 Lost Your Head Blues
14 Hard Time Blues
15 Honey Man Blues
16 One and Two Blues
17 Young Woman's Blues
18 Preachin' the Blues
19 Back Water Blues
20 After You've Gone
21 Alexander's Ragtime Band
22 Muddy Water (A Mississippi Moan)
23 There'll Be a Hot Time in the Old Town Tonight
24 Trombone Cholly
25 Send Me To The 'Lectric Chair
26 Them's Graveyard Words
27 Hot Springs Blues
28 Sweet Mistreater
29 Lock and Key
30 Mean Old Bedbug Blues
31 A Good Man Is Hard To Find
32 Homeless Blues
33 Looking for My Man Blues
34 Dyin' by the Hour
35 Foolish Man Blues
36 Thinking Blues
37 Pickpocket Blues
38 I Used to Be Your Sweet Mama
39 I'd Rather Be Dead and Buried in My Grave




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