AUNT CAROLINE DYER BLUES

I'm goin' to Newport News just to see Aunt Caroline Dyer.
I'm goin' to Newport News just to see Aunt Caroline Dyer.
She's a fortune-tellin' woman,
(Spoken: "What you gonna ask her boy?")
O Lord, and she don't tell no lies.
(Spoken: "I'm gonna see her myself.")

I'm goin' to Newport News this morning*,
Catch a battleship across the doggone sea.
I'm goin' to Newport News, catch a battleship across the doggone sea.
Because bad luck and hard work, O Lord, sure don't agree with me.

Aunt Caroline Dyer she told me, "Son, you don't have to feel so low."
Aunt Caroline Dyer she told me, "Son, you don't have to feel so low."
I'm gonna fix you up a mojo, O Lord, so you can strut your stuff.
(Spoken: "Go on and strut your stuff.")

Aunt Caroline Dyer she told me, "Son, these women don't mean you no good."
(Spoken: "I reckon I knowed that.")
Aunt Caroline Dyer she told me, "Son, these women don't mean you no good."
So take my advice and don't monkey with none in your neighborhood.

I am leavin' in the morning. I don't want no one to feel blue.
(Spoken: "We'll all leave then.")
I am leavin' in the morning. I don't want no one to feel blue.
I am going back to Newport News and do what Aunt Caroline Dyer told me to.

Recorded by the Memphis Jug Band in 1930, and reissued on "The Memphis Jug Band,
Vol. 3," 1998; also performed by the Blue Flame String Band. Newport News, Virg
inia is the site of a US Navy base. *"This morning" is taken from the Blue Flame
String Band recording; the words are unintelligible on the Memphis Jug Band rec
ording.
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