I'M GOING BACK TO MY USED TO BE
(Jimmy Cox / Whitman)

as recorded by Bessie Smith & Clara Smith
with Fletcher Henderson (piano)
October 4th 1925 New York


[cs]  I feel sad,
[bs]  You feel blue,
[cs]  I can hardly sleep at night!
[bs]  For your man was sore all the time,
[cs]  And I know I didn't treat him right!

[bs]  You goin' back to your first love,
[cs]  'Cause a good man is hard to find!
[bs]  I say you'll have just a grand good man,
[cs]  Believe me he is sure on my mind!

[cs]  I'm goin' back,
[bs]  Yeah, you carryin' it on back,
[cs]  I'm goin' back to my used to be!
[bs]  You goin' back,
[cs]  I'm goin' back,
      'Cause my man was so good to me!

[cs]  When last winter, when times was rough,
[bs]  Look out there Clara,
      You know your man was in the pool yard, struttin' his stuff!
[cs]  Exactly!  I'm goin' back!
[bs]  Clara, you say you're goin' back,
[cs]  I'm goin' back to my used to be!
[bs]  And it's this mornin',
[cs]  Back to my used to be!
[bs]  What can you use him for?
[cs]  Crazy about my used to be!
[bs]  He ain't good lookin'!
[cs]  I love my used to be!




(Transcribed by Peter Akers - December 2016)