| Lyrics: | (Huddie LedbetterAlan Lomax)
(G7) - (C7) - (G) - (D7)
(G7) Me and my wife went all
over town
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
thereÂÂâ€
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 |
