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Thread #31041   Message #1010937
Posted By: Jim Dixon
01-Sep-03 - 11:48 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Add: songs by Uncle Dave Macon
Subject: Lyr Add: ARCADE BLUES (Uncle Dave Macon)
Transcribed by me from www.honkingduck.com:

ARCADE BLUES
(1926)

[Spoken:] "Hot dog! Sung especially for Mr. Charlie Keys and Mr. Hyde in the Arcade who will play your records on both sides."

They got the arcade blues. (2x)
They got the arcade blues so bad.
Got the arcade blues. (2x)
That's a trouble I never had. (2x)

These silk-dressed women (2x)
This arcade's always had.
These silk-dressed women (2x)
Make a married man feel bad. (2x)

If you got a good woman, (2x)
I'd advise you to leave her at home.
These arcade boys (2x)
Won't let a good woman alone. (2x)

If you got a good woman, (2x)
Don't never bring her to town.
But a red-headed woman (2x)
Make a gray rabbit love a hound. (2x)

Gonna lay my head (2x)
Up on some railroad track.
It'll carry me away (2x)
But it will not bring me back. (2x)

A rubber-tired hearse (2x)
Like a great big Cadillac
Carry you over to the graveyard, boys, (2x)
That man won't bring you back. (2x)