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Thread #152230   Message #3561492
Posted By: Jim Dixon
26-Sep-13 - 11:48 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: A different girl for each day of week?
Subject: Lyr Add: GOTTA GIRL FOR EVERY DAY OF THE WEEK
My transcription. Words in parentheses are spoken.


GOTTA GIRL FOR EVERY DAY OF THE WEEK
As sung by Cow Cow Davenport on "Cow Cow Davenport: Complete Recorded Works in Chronological Order, Volume 2: 22 May 1929 to 1945 (Document Records, DOCD-5142)

I got a gal for ev'ry day in the week.
I got me a girl for ev'ry day in the week.
I got to buy me some bulldogs, keep them from makin' their midnight creep. (Yes, sir, I sure got to do that.)

I got a Monday gal; she cooks me turnip greens. (That's a good gal, too, man; that's a good gal.)
I got a gal for Monday, cooks me turnip greens. (Yes, sir; yes, sir.)
I got me a girl for Tuesday, give me those boiled baked beans. (Yes, yes.)

I got a Wednesday girl; she buys my clothes and my shoes. (That's a good gal, too; I declare it is.)
I got a gal for Wednesday, buys my clothes and shoes.
I got a gal for Thursday, gives me those worried blues.

I got a Friday gal (Boy, that's a killer); she give me my spendin' change. (Lord, have mercy!)
I got a gal for Friday, give me my spendin' change.
She's a married girl; I just ain't gon' call her name.

I got a gal for Sat'day, give me my diamond ring. (Ah, that's a good gal, too.)
I got a gal for Sat'day; she gave me my diamond ring.
For that gal, that gal, she'll do 'most anything. (Yeah, but that Sunday gal!)

I got a gal for Sunday, give me cool canned beer.
I got a girl for Sunday, give me cool canned beer.
She cries all day long, "Papa, don't you leave me here!"