SWEET WOMAN
(Hudson Whittaker (Tampa Red))

Sweet woman, sweet woman, where did you stay last night?
Sweet woman, where did you stay last night?
You've got your dress on backwards and your clothes don't fit you right.

You've got something, you've got something that they call a stingaree.
You've got something that they call a stingaree.
And I believe to my soul you have put that thing on me.

At four this morning, at four this morning by the clock hanging on the wall,
At four this morning by the clock hanging on the wall,
She used to come home at midnight but now she don't come home at all.

I would be happy, I would be happy but I don't think it can be done.
I would be happy but I don't think it can be done.
For every time I think of my sweet woman, my heart beats like a drum.

I love my woman. I love my woman from her apron string on down.
I love my woman from her apron string on down.
She's got a new way of loving will make a rabbit hug a hound.

I'm going to find her. I'm going to fix her so she won't be bad no more.
I'm going to fix her so she won't be bad no more.
I'm going to chain her to my side and make her follow me everywhere I go.

[As recorded by Tampa Red, 1934. Also recorded by Howlin' Wolf, Sonny Terry, Brownie McGhee, Bruce Edwin, Muddy Waters, Blind Boy Fuller. JTD]