Lyrics One and Two Blues - Bessie Smith

Our love starts way down home
Below the Dixon line
You pick cotton down on the farm
And everything were fine

But things have changed while you stayed still
You are in the rear
So you have to catch up soon
Or there'll be some changes made

I've got them one and two blues, what I can't lose
They haunt me night and day
And if you can't bring more, daddy, there's the door
That small change won't pay

If you want me to love you, heap much
Let mama feel that money touch
From now on, small change I refuse
Mama's got them one and two blues

Quit messin' around, you hear what I say
Start in to bringin' eight hours a day
If you must be a rat, here's the fact
Be a long-tailed one, have plenty of jack

Small change I refuse
Mama's got them one and two blues
I scream, mama's got them one and two blues