Lyr Add: Jailhouse Blues (B Smith, C Williams)

Subject: Lyr Add: JAILHOUSE BLUES (B Smith, C Williams)
From: Dicho (Frank Staplin)
Date: 29 May 02 - 04:52 PM

Lyr. Add: JAILHOUSE BLUES
Bessie Smith and Clarence Williams

Verse 1
Thirty days in jail with my back turned to the wall, to the wall
Thirty days in jail with my back turned to the wall.
Look here Mister Jailkeeper, put another girl in my stall.

Chorus 1
I don't mind bein' in jail but I got to stay there so long, so long.
I don't mind bein' in jail but I got to stay there so long, so long.
Well ev'ry friend I had done shook hands and gone.

Chorus 2
You better stop your man from ticklin' me under my chin, under my chin
You better stop your man from ticklin' under me, under my chin
"Cause if he keeps on ticklin' I'm sure gonna take him on in.

Chorus 3
Good mornin' blues, blues how do you do? How do you do?
Good mornin' blues, blues how do you do?
Well, I just come here to have a few words with you.

@blues @jail @cheating

Jailhouse Blues Sheet music Copyright 1931, renewed 1974, Frank Music Corp. Other websites credit Bessie Smith 1924. Perhaps a revision of the 1924 version, or when Frank Music obtained the rights.
Not to be confused with "(He's) In The Jailhouse Now."
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Subject: RE: Lyr Add: JAILHOUSE BLUES
From: Dicho (Frank Staplin)
Date: 29 May 02 - 04:59 PM

Note: Chords provided on the sheet music at the University Virginia website referenced above.

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: JAILHOUSE BLUES
From: Joe Offer
Date: 29 May 02 - 04:59 PM

The thread on He's in the Jailhouse Now has a lot of information about "Jailhouse Blues."
-Joe Offer-

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: JAILHOUSE BLUES
From: Stewie
Date: 29 May 02 - 08:32 PM

I have added Paul Oliver's transcription from [of?] Whistler's 'Jail House Blues', which is related to 'In the Jailhouse Now', to the thread linked above by Joe.

--Stewie.