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GUEST,Spoutnik Lyr Req: Married Life Blues (Oscar Ford) (7) Lyr Req: Married Life Blues - Oscar Ford 28 Sep 15


Hi,
I'm searching the lyrics of Married Life Blues from Oscar Ford. He recorded it in 1929. Riley Puckett play the guitar on that song. There is a verse toward the end where I hear Ku klux klan. I hope that the connotation is not racist, I lack the words to contextualize its reference. English is not my primary language.
Here's so far, what I've got.
Thanks in advanced

I took a notion few years ago that I'd start out in life
The first thing I thought that I had to have was me a pretty wife
I had those lonesome lovesick blues                

Way around a            honeymoon, way out in Arkansas
When I got back to my old home town I met my mother-in-law
I had the disappointed blues                                                

So I            started out to keepin' house, started out with a good will
I got drunk and I lost my job and I couldn't pay the grocery bill
I had those alcoholic blues                        

Then my wife she got mad at me, oh so my mother-in-law
The neighbors all set in a blustery, I thought we started a war
I                                     blues                                        

Then I got too late             , didn't come home till three
My wife was standing in the door with the rolling pin for me
I had those                naggy blues                                

Then she stood me forty boards and alimony, too
I didn't have but fifteen cents and I didn't know what to do
I had those desperation blues

               her name was Julia-ann
The second time I took her out, I met the Ku klux Klan
I      

                take me for a ride         rope
Every time they dust my pan, she see a         of smoke
I       Lord


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