SINFUL BLUES
Perry "Mule" Bradford
Bessie Smith w Fred Longshaw (Piano)   
rec 11/12/24 New York



I've got my opinion that my man won't act right,
So I'm gonna get hard on him, as from this very night.
Gonna get me a gun, long as my right arm,
Shoot that man because he done me wrong,
So now I've got them sinful blues.


Lokk here folks, don't think I'm rough,
'Cause I'm a good woman an' I knows my stuff,
That's why I'm sinful as can be.
My man may look low, but I can't keep
'Cause he knows a lot of little dirty tricks,
That's why I'm sinful as can be.


Goin' down to the river, take a rope and a rock,
Tie it round my neck, jump over the top,
That's why I'm sinful as can be.
I want all you girls to let my man be,
Everything he got belongs to me,
That's why I'm sinful as can be.


Get your pistol, I got mine,
Been mistreated, don't mind dyin',
That's why I'm sinful as can be.
I told all you girls to leave my man alone,
There's nothin' in this street he can't get at home,
That's why I'm sinful as can be.


Ha-ha!












(Contributed by Peter Akers - January 2008)