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Kansas City Man Blues

Kansas City Man Blues

Bessie Smith

1923

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Lyrics

I'm going back, I'm going back. And it won't be long.

I don't know why I

ever left my home. I'm really tired, I'm really tired.

I'm really tired of roaming around. Soon I will be in Kansas

City bound.

When I get back, I'll turn things upside down.

Kansas City

where I long to be.

Kansas

City

where I long

to be. A Kansas City man is waiting there for me.

He's got black sheep and two gold crowns. He's got black sheep

and two gold crowns. He's got polo hats and he's a top color clown.

Women all crying,

I ain't raised my hand.

Women all crying,

I ain't raised my hand.

It's all on account of me taking one poor boy's man.

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