WARNING: some lyrics in this song may offend.

In the square brackets is what I hear differently from the transcription in the Bear Family box set.

I'VE GOT THE MOURNING BLUES

Been in business and I've been in love
I used to fly high like a turtle dove
Had the blues a-many a time
There's just a woman on a poor man's mind

Chorus:
I've got the mourning blues, oh so bad
Honey, come and kiss me, they're the worst I've ever had

Ashes to ashes and it's dust to dust
Show me a woman that a man can trust
Nickel's worth of grease and a dime's worth of lard
I would buy more but the times is so hard

Chorus

There ain't no use me a-workin' so hard
For I've got a woman in the white folk's yard
She brings me meat and she brings me pie
I'm eatin' something of everything the white folks buy

Chorus

She brings me chicken and she brings me cake
You just ought to see me lick that plate
A big honey biscuit and a mutton[s] chop
Will make a nigger's lips go flippity flop

Chorus

There stands a fellow right over there          [Like there's a fellow …]
He's got blue eyes and he's got black hair
Talking to his sweetheart, she looks so neat
She calls him honey and he calls her sweet

Chorus

There stands a fellow right over yonder
He looks like he wants to founder    [ponder]
Look at that hair all around his mouth
Like he swallered a mule and left the tail a-hangin' out

Chorus

Source: transcription of Uncle Dave Macon 'I've got the mourning blues' at page 67 of the book accompanying Uncle Dave Macon box set [Bear Family BCD 15978 JM].

Uncle Dave Macon 'I've got the mourning blues' recorded in New York City on 14 April 1926 and issued as Vo 15349, 5095.    Uncle Dave accompanied by Sam McGee on guitar.

--Stewie.