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Thread #34808   Message #3523103
Posted By: Jim Dixon
05-Jun-13 - 01:14 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Charming Betsy
Subject: Lyr Add: BLACK GIRL GETS THERE JUST THE SAME
My transcription from a recording on Spotify. Several words and phrases are uncertain. Corrections are welcome.

BLACK GIRL GETS THERE JUST THE SAME
As sung by Cow Cow Davenport with Dora Carr, 1925.

[Spoken:]
CCD: Good morning, pretty mama.
DC: Hey, get out of here! You too black! Don't come in here so soon.
CCD: What's the matter? What's the matter? You don't want no black man to come in?
DC: Absolute! Too dark for me.
CCD: Oh, it must be bad luck, 'cause here, woman, you know I don't like no yellow woman either. Now here, don't have me to talk about that dominizin'. I ain't never crazy 'bout nobody but my black women. During the war, you yellow women was all right. Yeah, you's worth a plenty money. Used to haul in fifty dollars. But now the war is over, you can get you four for a quarter anyhow. Woman, don't have me to dominize you.
DC: All right, I'm gonna get you told.

[Sung:]
DC: I would not marry a black man.
I tell you reasons why:
Black man he wasn't born for me,
'Cause black has gone out of style.
I mean, black has gone out of style.

CCD: I would not marry a yellow woman. (DC: Why?)
CCD: I'll tell you the reason why.
You always go out and stay all night ridin' in automobiles,
Come home and tell your husband great big lies.
I mean, you tell too many doggone lies

DC: Yellow gal she rides in a fine automobile.
Brown-skin gal does the same.
CCD: Black gal rides in a tin-Lizzy Ford,
But she rides it just the same.
I mean, she'll get there just the same.

DC: Yellow gal she grease with this, uh, good cold cream.
Brown-skin gal she does the same.
CCD: Black gal grease with old fat meat grease,
But she's greasy just the same.
I mean, greasy just the same.

DC: Yellow gal she smell like this, uh, good toilet water.
Brown-skin she smells the same.
CCD: Black gal don't smell like no toilet water,
But she's smelly just the same.
I mean, she gets there just the same.