Bessie Smith - The Collection

Downhearted Blues

Gee, but it's hard to love someone
When that someone don't love you

I'm so disgusted, heartbroken too
I've got those downhearted blues
Once I was crazy 'bout a man
He mistreated me all the time
The next man I get has got to promise me
To be mine, all mine

Trouble, trouble
I've had it all my days
Trouble, trouble
I've had it all my days
It seems like trouble
Going to follow me to my grave

I ain't never loved but
Three mens in my life
I ain't never loved
But three men in my life
My father, my brother
The man that wrecked my life

It may be a week
It may be a month or two
It may be a week
It may be a month or two
But the day you quit me, honey
It's comin' home to you

I got the world in a jug
The stopper's in my hand
I got the world in a jug
The stopper's in my hand
I'm gonna hold it until you
Meet some of my demands



Credits
Writer(s): Alberta Hunter, Lovie Austin
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Other Album Tracks

  1. Downhearted Blues
  2. 'Tain't Nobody's Bizness If I Do
  3. My Sweetie Went Away (She Didn't Say Where, When Or Why)
  4. Weeping Willow Blues
  5. St. Louis Blues
  6. Reckless Blues
  7. You've Been a Good Ole Wagon
  8. I Ain't Gonna Play No Second Fiddle
  9. Young Woman's Blues
  10. Muddy Water (A Mississippi Moan)

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Altri album

  1. Blue Notes – A Blues Survey from 1920-1960, vol. 1 (feat. Clarence Williams' Blue Five & Little Hat Jones) - Single
  2. Me and My Gin
  3. All That Jazz, Vol. 57: Bessie Smith - A Decade of the Blues (24 Bit HD Remastering 2016)
  4. The Best of Bessie Smith
  5. The Empress of the Blue - Original Recordings
  6. Over the Top Blues Masterpieces, Vol. 2 (Remastered)
  7. Introducing Bessie Smith, Vol. 2
  8. All the Greatest Hits Ever Made, Vol. 4 (Remastered)
  9. The Empress of the Blues (40 Original Tracks Remastered)
  10. Baby Won't You Please Come Home (Original Recordings, 1923)

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