ROCKS IN MY BED
Duke Ellington  1941

as rec by Ella Fitzgerald  
September 1956 Los Angeles

also rec by-
Ivie Anderson w Duke Ellington & his Orch '41
Big Joe Turner w The Freddy Slack Trio '41
Betty Roche '61
Joe Williams '63
Sarah Vaughan '79
Lambert Hendricks & Ross


My heart is heavy as lead
Because the blues have done spread
Rocks in my bed!
Of all the people I see,
Why do they pick on poor me
And put rocks in my bed?
All night long I weep,
So how can I sleep
With rocks in my bed?

There's only two kinds of people I can't understand,
There's only two kinds of people I can't understand,
That's a deceitful woman and a hard-faced man!

She took my man away and ain't goin' bring him back,
She took my man away and ain't goin' bring him back,
She's lower than a snake down in a wagon track!

I got rocks in my bed,
I got rocks in my bed,
Rocks in my bed,
I got rocks in my bed.
Underloved, overfed,
My man's gone, so instead
I got rocks in my bed!
Underloved, overfed,
My man's gone, so instead
I got rocks in my bed!




(Transcribed by Peter Akers - September 2011)