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Thread #48458   Message #3287095
Posted By: Jim Dixon
08-Jan-12 - 01:42 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Mama Where Did You Stay Last Night?
Subject: Lyr Add: MAMA, WHERE DID YOU STAY LAST NIGHT?
MAMA, WHERE DID YOU STAY LAST NIGHT?
As sung by Pink Anderson on "Blues Legend" (2011)

Tell me, pretty baby, where in the world did you stay last night?
Why your dress all wrinkled, an' your shoes wasn't tied up right.

Woman, I feel like snappin' my pistol in your face.
Let the col' hard graveyard be your restin' place.

Well, I sure ain't got no lovin' baby now.
I sure I ain't got no lovin' woman now.
She tol' me late las' night, "You don't need no gal nohow."

I went and laid, laid my head on the Little Sun railroad track.
I got to thinkin' 'bout my baby. Y'ought to seed me jerkin' back.

Well, I sure ain't got no lovin' baby now.
I sure I ain't got me no lovin' woman now.
She tol' me late las' night, "Pink, you don't need no gal nohow."

(I reckon I don't; I ain't got ne'er'n.)

Mm-hmm, hey, mama, you know that ain't no way to do.
You got a man in jail an' a kid in the avenue.

Lord, I sure ain't got no lovin' baby now.
I know I ain't got me no lovin' woman now.
She tol' me late las' night, "You don't need no gal nohow."

If your bes' gal ever quits you when you ain't done nothing wrong,
Well, your heart'd be in sorrow an' your life won't last you long.