Huddie Ledbetter - TB Blues lyrics

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TB Blues Trk 5 Disc 2

Huddy Ledbetter

Huddie Ledbetter - vocal & guitar

Album: The Essential by Allegro Classic Blues

CBL 200003 Transcriber: Awcantor@aol.com

Spoken:

Now this is the TB Blues.

The first girl ever had the TB, she died.

And the woman have one child in world and that

was her girl. And she run with twenty-five or thirty mens and

the man she loved best is one was a sweetback man he was

dressed up all the time. But the men that wore *overhauls, she

wouldn't take a dime from them. Asked that man for one dime.

And while she was sick that worried her to death over that man

didn't have no dime. And she was gettin' to sing the TB blues.

In them times ev'rybody have the TB, died.

And hear what she tell her mother ev'rytime her mother

come 'round to her bed she look in her face, and here what she said:

It's too late, too late

Too late, too late, too late

It's too late, too late, too late

Too late, too late

I'm on my way to Denver

And mama must I hesitate

TB's alright to have it here

Friend just treat ya's so low down

TB's alright to have it here

Friends just treat you so low down

Don't you ask 'em for no favors

They'll even stop a- comin' around

Mmm, this TB is killin' me

Mmm, this TB is killin' me

My mama like a prisoner

Always a-working the streets

Well, I'm on-on-on my feet

Couldn't ev' much walk down the street

But the mens are lookin' at me

From my head to my feet

But they's dead now, this TB is killin me

You're better buried or in the deep blue sea

Mmm-mmm

Mmm-mm-mm

I got a tuberculosis

Consuption is killing me.

*same as overalls

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