BLUES IN THE NIGHT (MY MAMA DONE TOL' ME)
From the film "Hot Nocturne" (1942) - The song was so popular that the 
film was re-titled "Blues In The Night".
(Johnny Mercer / Harold Arlen)

Woody Herman & His Orch.(vocal Woody Herman) - 1942
Jimmie Lunceford & His Orch. - 1942
Dinah Shore - 1942 
Cab Calloway & His Orch.(vocal Calloway & The Palmer Brothers) - 1942
Artie Shaw & His Orch.(vocal "Hot Lips" Page) - 1942
Benny Goodman & His Sextet (vocal Peggy Lee & Lou McGarrity) - 1942
Rosemary Clooney - 1952
Frank Sinatra - 1958


My mama done tol' me,
When I was in knee pants,
My mama done tol' me, Son!
A woman'll sweet talk
And give ya the big eye;
But when the sweet talkin's done,
A woman's a two face
A worrisome thing
Who'll leave ya t'sing
The blues in the night

Now the rain's a-fallin',
Hear the train a-callin'
Whoo-ee (my mama done tol' me)
Hear that lonesome whistle
Blowin' `cross the trestle,
Whoo-ee (my mama done tol' me)
A whoo-ee-duh-whoo-ee, ol' clickety clack's
A-echoin' back the blues in the night

The evenin' breeze'll start the trees to cryin'
And the moon'll hide its light
When you get the blues in the night

Take my word, the mockin' bird'll
Sing the saddest kind o' song
He knows things are wrong and he's right

From Natchez to Mobile,
From Memphis to St. Jo,
Wherever the four winds blow,
I been in some big towns,
An' heard me some big talk,
But there is one thing I know
A woman's a two face,
A worrisome thing
Who'll leave ya t'sing the blues in the night.

My mama was right,
There's blues in the night.