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 RY COODER - Bourgeois Blues Lyrics

[Huddie Ledbetter/Alan Lomax]
[G7] - [C7] - [G] - [D7]

[G7] Me and my wife went all over town
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And everywhere we went people turned us down
Lord, in a [C7] bourgeois town
It's a [G] bourgeois town
I got the [D7] bourgeois blues
Gonna spread the news all a- [G] round

Home of the brave, land of the free
I don't wanna be mistreated by no bourgeoisie
Lord, in a bourgeois town
Uhm, the bourgeois town
I got the bourgeois blues
Gonna spread the news all around

Well, me and my wife we were standing upstairs
We heard the white man say ¡°I don't want no niggers up there¡±
Lord, in a bourgeois town
Uhm, bourgeois town
I got the bourgeois blues
Gonna spread the news all around

Well, them white folks in Washington they know how
To call a colored man a nigger just to see him bow
Lord, it's a bourgeois town
Uhm, the bourgeois town
I got the bourgeois blues
Gonna spread the news all around

I tell all the colored folks to listen to me
Don't try to find you no home in Washington, DC
'Cause it's a bourgeois town
Uhm, the bourgeois town
I got the bourgeois blues
Gonna spread the news all around