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SWEET TO MAMA
As recorded by Frank Stokes and the Beale Street Sheiks, Chicago, August 1927
True key of B flat, I chord position 'G' capo 3

(Instrumental verse intro)

I woke up this morning, ah, soon this morning, with the blues all around my baby's bed.
Lord, I woke up this morning with the blues all round my baby's bed.
I turned my face to the wall, and baby, these are the words I said:

Now, sweet to mama, how sweet to mama, now mama, tell me where you stayed last night.
Lord, it's sweet to mama, now, mama, where'd you stay last night?
Now, your clothes are all wrinkled, mama, your hair sure ain't fixed up right.

Now, it's two drops of water, two drops of water, now, baby, one or two grains of sand.
Lord, it's two drops of water, Lord, and one or two grains of sand.
My baby, the blues ain't nothin' but a woman want to see her man.

Now there's two big steamers, two big steamers, my baby, running along side by side.
Lord, there's two bullyin' steamers running along side by side.
Now, you stole my good gal. I guess you're satisfied.

Now, mama told me, my mama told me, my baby, when I was a child,
Lord, my mama told me, Lord, when I was a child,
You have a good time now, you'll have trouble after a while.

If I just a-listened, just had a-listened, my baby, what my mama said,
If I just had a-listened, great God, what my mama said,
I would have been at home trying to live with you every day.

Now, when you see the spider, you see the spider, my baby, runnin' up and down the wall,
Lord, when you see the spider, Lord, they're runnin' up and down the wall.
He must be goin' somewhere, because he's tryin' have his ashes hauled.

Now, weepin' Mary, a–weeping Mary, a–weeping Mary, don't you weep no more.
I said, a–weeping Mary, now, Mary, don't you weep no more.
Now, stop and take your time, and do your work everywhere you go.