Teasin' Brown Blues

louis lasky vocalion recordLouis Lasky
  • Tuning: Standard - EADGBE
  • Date transcribed:
    March 19, 2024
  • Reference audio: YouTube

i. Sheet music / tablature

Transcribed by Blahnok

ii. Slow-downer / pitch shifter

iii. Notes

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.

Lyrics

Well, mama, I dream about you night and day<br>Ah ah, baby, I dream about you night and day<br>I had my hand on some this mornin' and I swear I let it get away<br><br>I love you, mama, and I'll tell the world I do<br>I love you, baby, and-a I will tell the world I do<br>'Cause can't nobody treat me, honey, like my rider do<br><br>You don't have to cook me no chicken, 'cause your plain old neckbones will do<br>Don't have to cook me no chicken, 'cause your old neckbones will do<br>I'm gonna buy you some black-eyed peas, mama, and try to get 'long with you<br><br>How, mama?  How do you speak, you little baby?<br>I hear your daddy calling.  I'm crazy about the way you're doin'<br>I'm talkin' about your jelly roll<br>'Cause I know you've got something, will send salvation to your soul, Lordy, Lordy, Lord mmm<br><br>She got hair like Gloria Swanson and she walk just like Priscilla Dean<br>Hair like Gloria Swanson and she walk just like Priscilla Dean<br>'Cause she's the prettiest woman, old Louie have ever seen<br><br>I'm gonna ask the Good Lord to send me an angel down<br>I'm gonna ask the Good Lord to send me an angel down<br>But if she ain't not a good one, I'm going to clinge on to my teasin' brown