Blue As I Can Be   2:42   Trk 19  Disc 2           song 40
(Tommy McClennan)
Tommy McClennan
Recorded: Chicago, Illinois  Friday Feb. 20, 1942
RCA Studio A,  A&R - Lester Melrose
Tommy McClennan - vocal & guitar
Ransom Knowling - string bass
Album: Tommy McClennan Bluebird Recordings 1939-1942
07863  67430-2  RCA  1997 Bluebird Blues (BMG)
Transcriber: Awcantor@aol.com




Booked me out, baby
You know I'm bound a-go
Booked me out, babe
You know I'm bound to go
And I hope to meet you
On that other life time shore

Umm-mmm!
I'm blue as I can be
Umm-mm!
Blue as I can be
An I hope someday, baby
You will come to have the blues 'bout me

Ev'ry night I lay down
I can't sleep for cryin'
Ev'ry night I lay down
I can't sleep for cryin'
Thinkin' about my baby
She must gonna put me down

Umm-mmm!
What can I do to change yo' mind?
Umm-mmm!
Babe, what can I do to change yo' mind?
She said, 'I could learn to love you, Tommy
If you would treat me nice an kind'

Bye-bye, babe
See ya some ol' rainy day
Bye-bye, babe
See ya some ol' rainy day
I'm gonna see ya 'bout the time
Yo' best man is gone away.

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