DON'T DOG YOUR WOMAN
(Hudson Whittaker (Tampa Red))

I get the blues 'round about midnight and early with the rising sun.
I get to thinking about my sweet woman and all the good she done.
Then my heart beats just like a hammer and my eyes get full of tears.
She only been gone about twenty-four hours but it seems like a thousand years.
I shoulda loved her more. I know I didn't treat her right. (2x)
A woman like that needs loving every day and night.

Now the blues are piling up on me, but I brought it all on myself.
When I shoulda been loving my woman, I was out with somebody else.
Now it's a mighty hard pill to swallow, but I want all you men to know:
You better mind what you are sowing, 'cause you got to reap what you sow.
And don't never dog your woman when you know you're doing wrong yourself.
Don't never dog your woman when you know you're doing wrong yourself.
She'll get the devil in her mind and go wild about somebody else.

Now the river runs into the ocean and the ocean pours into the sea,
But if I don't find my sweet woman, somebody will have to bury me,
'Cause I love that woman better than I love myself.
I love that woman better than I love myself,
And it's breaking my heart to know she's with somebody else.

[As recorded by Tampa Red, 1935. Also recorded by Brownie McGhee, Buster Brown, and J. B. Lenoir. JTD]