Here's the way i hear it. Lomax and Leadbelly wrote it, I think. you should probably check the DT

Well listen here people, listen to me Don't you ever try to buy a house in Washington DC Cause it's a bourgeois town living in a bourgeois town I got the bourgeois blues going to spread the news around

Me and my best girlfriend were standing on the steps I heard a white man say don't want no black folks up here He was a bourgeois man living in a bourgeois town I got the bourgeois blues going to spread the news around

Land of the brave and the home of the free I ain't going to be mistreated by no bourgeoisie. living in a bourgeois town living in a bourgeois town I got the bourgeois blues going to spread the news around

The color of your skin don't make no difference to me Well, just don't try to thrown down nothing that's bourgeoisie living in a bourgeois town living in a bourgeois town I going to bourgeois town going to spread the news around