Leadbelly - The bourgeois blues

^AMe'n my wife, went all over town ^AEverywhere we go the people would turn us down Lawd in a ^Dbourgeois town, Hee it's a ^Abourgeois town, I got the ^E7bourgeois blues, I'm gonna spread the news all ^Aaround

^AMe an' Marthy we was standing upstairs ^AI heard a white man say "I don't want no niggers up there" Lawd he's a ^Dbourgeois man Hee it's a ^Abourgeois town, I got the ^E7bourgeois blues, I'm gonna spread the news all ^Aaround

^AHome of the brave land of the free ^AI don't wanna be mistreated by no bourgeoisie Lawd in a ^Dbourgeois town Hee it's a ^Abourgeois town, I got the ^E7bourgeois blues, I'm gonna spread the news all ^Aaround

^AMe'n my wife went all over town. ^AEverywhere we go the colored people would turn us down Lawd in a ^Dbourgeois town Hee it's a ^Abourgeois town, I got the ^E7bourgeois blues, I'm gonna spread the news all ^Aaround

^AThe white folks in Washington they know how ^AChuck a colored man a nickel just to see him bow Lawd in a ^Dbourgeois town Hee it's a ^Abourgeois town, I got the ^E7bourgeois blues, I'm gonna spread the news all ^Aaround

^ATell all the colored folks to listen to me ^ADon't try to buy no home in Washington D.C. 'Cause it's a ^Dbourgeois town Hee it's a ^Abourgeois town I got the ^E7bourgeois blues an' I'm gonna spread the ^Anews