ROWDY WOMAN BLUES
(Hudson Whittaker (Tampa Red))

I'm gone make a change, baby, because your way won't do. (2x)
You care less and less about me, babe, the more I do for you.

Your ways are so rowdy, you keep me worried all the time. (2x)
I say you can't learn to love me, baby, and there ain't no need of tryin'.

I done something for you, baby, your other good men never done. (2x)
You know I bought you some hair, baby, and they wouldn't buy you none.

When I first met you, baby, you didn't have no hair at all. (2x)
Now I'm gone take my wig 'way from you and let your ratty nappy head go bald.

You're just a rowdy woman, getting worser every day. (2x)
But if you just must be rowdy, baby, why don't you do it in a decent way?

[As recorded by Tampa Red, 1935. JTD]