Lyr/Chords Req: Wild Women Don't Have the Blues

Subject: wild women don't get the blues
From:
Date: 07 Dec 99 - 09:54 PM

I'm kinda new at this. I found the lyrics in the DB for "Wild Women Don't Get the Blues" (the Ida Cox tune). Getting the chords would be sweet.

Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: wild women don't get the blue
From: MAG (inactive)
Date: 08 Dec 99 - 11:44 PM

That's a Memphis Minnie tune ...

Subject: Lyr/Chords Add:WILD WOMEN DON'T GET THE BLUES
From: franz
Date: 09 Dec 99 - 06:54 AM

I know the version of The Big Three; it can be found on the Mamas and Papas Anthology called Creeque Alley. There it is credited to Cass Elliot and Tim Rose.

I'm not really familiar with those funky and jazzy chords there (not to mention html tags), but here's my first approximation:

WILD WOMEN DON'T GET THE BLUES

  Gm D#7  D7 
    

 G(m)                    G0       G(m)        G0 
  Well these women always ravin' 'bout their monkey men,  
   G(m)                   G0    G(m)              G0 
  About their triflin' husbands and their no-good friends.  
    C7 
  Peaceful women sit around all day and moan.  
           G                              G0     C7       E(7) 
  They're wonderin' why their wanderin' papas don't come home. 
   A7                           D7  
  Wild women don't worry, wild women don't get the blues.  
  
  Well, I got a disposition, and a way of my own,  
  If my man don't like it, he can find a new home.  
  I go out and drink good whiskey, walk the streets all night,  
  Then I go home and kick my man out if he don't do me right.  
  'Cause wild women don't worry, wild women don't get the blues.  
  
  Well, you never get nothin' by bein' an angel child  
  Girls you better change your ways of living, and  get real wild.  
  I wanna tell you somethin' you know I wouldn't tell you no lie.  
  Wild women are the only kind that ever get by.  
  'Cause wild women don't worry, wild women don't get the blues.  
   G0     C7       E(7) 
     A7                           D7  
  I said wild women don't worry, wild women don't get the blues.  

G0: xx2323

Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: wild women don't get the blue
From: GUEST
Date: 09 Nov 05 - 10:58 PM

re

Subject: Lyr Add: WILD WOMEN DON'T HAVE THE BLUES (Ida Cox)
From: Jim Dixon
Date: 12 Nov 05 - 12:50 AM

You can hear the complete song at The Red Hot Jazz Archive. There, Ida Cox is credited as songwriter, as well as the singer. I diligently compared that recording to the one in DigiTrad, and I found several differences, which I have marked with boldface.

WILD WOMEN DON'T HAVE THE BLUES
(Ida Cox)

I hear these women ravin' 'bout their monkey men,
About their triflin' husbands and their no-good friends.
Peaceful women sit around all day an' moan,
Wonderin' why their wanderin' papas don't come home,
But wild women don't worry. Wild women don't have no blues.

Now when you got a man, don't never be on the square,
'Cause if you do, he'll have a woman ev'rywhere.
I never was known to treat no one man right.
I keep 'em working hard both day and night,
'Cause wild women don't worry. Wild women don't have the blues.

I've got a disposition, and a way of my own.
When my man starts kicking, I let him find another home.
I get full of good liquor, walk the streets all night,
Go home and put my man out if he don't act right.
Wild women don't worry. Wild women don't have the blues.

You never get nothing by bein' an angel child.
You better change your ways, and get real wild.
I'm gonna tell you something. I wouldn't tell you a lie.
Wild women are the only kind that really get by,
'Cause wild women don't worry. Wild women don't have the blues.

[As recorded by Ida Cox accompanied by Lovie Austin and Her Blues Serenaders, 1924.]