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Thread #87876   Message #1646056
Posted By: Jim Dixon
10-Jan-06 - 11:33 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Skin Game Blues (Peg Leg Howell)
Subject: Lyr Add: SKIN GAME BLUES (Lucille Bogan)
Here's another song with the same title. Transcribed from the sound file at The Red Hot Jazz Archive:

SKIN GAME BLUES
As recorded by Lucille Bogan, 1935.

Good morning, skin game. Holler skin game, please lay.
Good morning, skin game. Holler skin game, please lay.
I done staked my man to win and I hope my money will pay.

He's done pawned my house. He got my life, that day.
He's done pawned my house. Got my life, that day.
And I got to get it back with that money he gambled away.

He never lost no money until he drawed that black queen of spades.
Ooh, lost his money on that black queen of spades.
And my man was ... beggin'. He was in hard luck that very day.

When he come back to me, got a dollar-two.
Come back to me, got a dollar or two.
I want him to go back to that skin game and see what he can do.

If my man he could only win my money back,
If my man could only win my money back,
I would take a walk downtown, buy me a brand-new pair of shoes and hat.