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Thread #17892   Message #2824167
Posted By: Jim Dixon
28-Jan-10 - 10:33 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Sweet Jivin' Mama (Blind Blake)
Subject: Lyr Add: SWEET JIVIN' MAMA (Blind Blake)
From Stefan Grossman's Early Masters of American Blues Guitar: Blind Blake by Blind Blake, Stefan Grossman (Van Nuys, CA: Alfred Publishing Co., Inc., 1994, 2007), page 82:

SWEET JIVIN' MAMA
As recorded by Blind Blake

1. Did you ever know a woman with a red {tooth behind her smile}*? (2x)
Sometimes you thought she ought to be buried alive.

2. When a woman act right she's sweet as sweet can be. (2x)
A sweet talking woman made a chump out of me.

3. I got a sweet woman, she sure got me on the floor. (2x)
She hears me coming, get her husband out of doors.

4. Sweet jivin' mama, make a man done gone and ... (2x)
But a jivin' woman, make a man....

5. My friends done tell me, don't listen to no woman talk. (2x)
But a sweet jivin' mama make me stuff my friends and walk.

(* Note: I really can't hear clearly the end phrase for lines 1 & 2. [SG])