Bessie Smith - I Used to Be Your Sweet Mama Lyrics

Lyrics I Used to Be Your Sweet Mama - Bessie Smith



Yes I'm mad, and have every right to be
After what my daddy did to me
I lavished all my love on him
But I swear I'll never love again
All you women understand what it is to be
In love with a two-time man
The next time he calls me,"Sweet Mama" in his lovin' way
This is what I'm going to say
I used to be your Sweet Mama, Sweet Papa
But now I'm just as sour as can be
So don't come stallin' around my way
Expecting any love from me
You've had your chance, and proved unfaitful
So now I'm gonna be, real mean and hateful
I used to be your Sweet Mama, Sweet Papa
But now I'm just as sour as can be
I ain't gonna let no man, worry me sick
Or turn this hair of mine gray
As soon as I catch him at his two-time trick
I'm gonna tell him to be on his way
To the world I scream
No man can treat me mean
And expect my love all the time
When he roams away, he better stay
If he comes back, he'll find
You've had your chance, and proved unfaitful
So now I'm gonna be, real mean and hateful
I used to be your Sweet Mama, Sweet Papa
But now I'm just as sour as can be



Writer(s): L. Miller, F. Longshaw


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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