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Joe Offer Req: 2nd verse of 'You don't know my mind' (13) RE: Req: 2nd verse of 'You don't know my mind' 31 May 18


One problem with Michael Taft's blues lyrics book, Talkin' to Myself, is that the book is indexed only by the performer. There is no title index. There is an online concordance that helped me find two versions, but I can't make it identify the sources of the two versions. Anyhow, here they are:

I went to the race track : my man *on derby* won
Give the money to another gal : and wouldn't give me none

You don't know : you don't know my mind
When you see me laughing : laughing to keep from crying

I said now papa : can you stand to see me cry
He said yes woman : I could stand to see you die

Fed my daddy : with plenty of jellyroll
Pull the shoes off my feet : let me out in the cold





Going down to the river : take a rope and a rock
Tie it around my neck : and jump off the dock

Ain't no one : can change my mind
I've been mistreated : and I don't mind dying

Going to get me some poison : kill myself
Because the man I love : has put me on the shelf

If he didn't want me : he didn't have to lie
The day I see him : that's the day he'll die

Baby : you don't know my mind
When you see me laughing : I'm laughing just to keep from crying

A crooked man's worse : than crooked dice
With dice you lose your money : with your man you lose your life

I'm going to get me a razor : and a gun
Cut him if he stands still : shoot him if he runs


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