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Thread #158240   Message #3740346
Posted By: GUEST,Spoutnik
28-Sep-15 - 12:31 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Married Life Blues (Oscar Ford)
Subject: Lyr Req: Married Life Blues - Oscar Ford
Hi,
I'm searching the lyrics of Married Life Blues from Oscar Ford. He recorded it in 1929. Riley Puckett play the guitar on that song. There is a verse toward the end where I hear Ku klux klan. I hope that the connotation is not racist, I lack the words to contextualize its reference. English is not my primary language.
Here's so far, what I've got.
Thanks in advanced

I took a notion few years ago that I'd start out in life
The first thing I thought that I had to have was me a pretty wife
I had those lonesome lovesick blues                

Way around a            honeymoon, way out in Arkansas
When I got back to my old home town I met my mother-in-law
I had the disappointed blues                                                

So I            started out to keepin' house, started out with a good will
I got drunk and I lost my job and I couldn't pay the grocery bill
I had those alcoholic blues                        

Then my wife she got mad at me, oh so my mother-in-law
The neighbors all set in a blustery, I thought we started a war
I                                     blues                                        

Then I got too late             , didn't come home till three
My wife was standing in the door with the rolling pin for me
I had those                naggy blues                                

Then she stood me forty boards and alimony, too
I didn't have but fifteen cents and I didn't know what to do
I had those desperation blues

               her name was Julia-ann
The second time I took her out, I met the Ku klux Klan
I      

                take me for a ride         rope
Every time they dust my pan, she see a         of smoke
I       Lord