Lyr Req: Blues in the Night (Mercer, Arlen)

Subject: My mama done told me when I was a baby
From:
Date: 25 Sep 98 - 09:59 AM

I would appreciate the title of the song, who recorded it and balance of lyrics if possible. or a link to where it can be found.

Thanks

Subject: RE: My mama done told me when I was a baby
From: Chet W.
Date: 25 Sep 98 - 10:03 AM

I think you're looking for "Blues in the Night". Look for recordings by Bessie Smith, Billie Holliday, Ella Fitzgerald. An awful lot of female blues and jazz singers have done this song.

Chet W.

Subject: Lyr Add: BLUES IN THE NIGHT (Mercer, Arlen)
From: Joe Offer
Date: 25 Sep 98 - 04:18 PM

Is this it?

Blues In the Night
Johnny Mercer (words) & Harold Arlen (music), 1941

My mama done tol' me, when I was in knee-pants
My mama done tol' me, " Son a woman'll sweet talk"
And give ya the big eye, but when the sweet talkin's done
A woman's a two-face,
A worrisome thing who'll leave ya to sing the blues in the night

Now the rain's a-fallin', hear the train's a-callin, "Whooee!"
(My mama done tol' me)
Hear dat lonesome whistle blowin' 'cross the trestle, "Whooee!"
(My mama done tol' me)
A-whooee-ah-whooee ol' clickety-clack's a-echoin' back th' blues in the night

The evenin' breeze'll start the trees to cryin'
and the moon'll hide its light when you get the blues in the night
Take my word, the mockingbird'll sing the saddest kind o' song,
he knows things are wrong, and he's right

From Natchez to Mobile, from Memphis to St. Joe,
Wherever the four winds blow
I been in some big towns an' heard me some big talk,
But there is one thing I know
A woman's a two-face, a worrisome thing
who'll leave ya to sing the blues in the night

My mama was right, there's blues in the night.