COLD IN HAND BLUES
Jack Gee / Fred Longshaw   1925

as rec by Bessie Smith w Louis Armstrong (cornet) 
& Fred Longshaw (piano)   
Jan 24th 1925 New York


I've got a hardworkin' man,
The way he treats me I can't understand;
He works hard every day
And on Sat'day throws away his pay!
Now I don't want that man,
Because he's gone cold in hand.

Now I've tried hard to treat him kind,
I've tried hard to treat him kind,
But it seems to me his love has gone blind.

The man I've got must have lost his mind,
The man I've got must have lost his mind,
The way he treat me I can't understand.

I'm gonna find myself another man,
I'm gonna find myself another man,
Because the one I've got has done gone cold in hand.







(Contributed by Peter Akers - May 2009)