Teasin' Brown Blues

Transcribed by Blahnok

This song was recorded by Louis Lasky on April 2nd, 1935 by Vocalion in Chicago Illinois, issued as Vocalion C-945-B. It features Lasky's distinctive flat-picking guitar style in the key-of-G, as he accompanies his singing.

Well, mama, I dream about you night and day
Ah ah, baby, I dream about you night and day
I had my hand on some this mornin' and I swear I let it get away

I love you, mama, and I'll tell the world I do
I love you, baby, and-a I will tell the world I do
'Cause can't nobody treat me, honey, like my rider do

You don't have to cook me no chicken, 'cause your plain old neckbones will do
Don't have to cook me no chicken, 'cause your old neckbones will do
I'm gonna buy you some black-eyed peas, mama, and try to get 'long with you

How, mama? How do you speak, you little baby?
I hear your daddy calling. I'm crazy about the way you're doin'
I'm talkin' about your jelly roll
'Cause I know you've got something, will send salvation to your soul, Lordy, Lordy, Lord mmm

She got hair like Gloria Swanson and she walk just like Priscilla Dean
Hair like Gloria Swanson and she walk just like Priscilla Dean
'Cause she's the prettiest woman, old Louie have ever seen

I'm gonna ask the Good Lord to send me an angel down
I'm gonna ask the Good Lord to send me an angel down
But if she ain't not a good one, I'm going to clinge on to my teasin' brown