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This is Not the Stove to Brown Your Bread Lyrics by Blind Willie McTell

1929

[Ruth Kate Williams]
Things is high and still going up
I'm going to get mine no matter what it cost
[Blind Willie McTell]
I'm the man and I'm the boss
[Ruth Kate Williams]
I'm going to get what I want no matter what it cost
I just sent a man to the crazy house
He was big and bad like you
I'd taken all of his money and I throwed it away
And he didn't have on a real good shoe
[Blind Willie McTell]
Now woman, woman
You think a man like me
Would be that big a fool about you?
(Yes!)
You better see your doctor
Something is wrong with your head
This is not the stove to brown your bread
Now if you's lookin for me to give you my money when you say
Mama, I'm not goin' that way
Now you told me that your love turned off and on
[Ruth Kate Williams]
Yes and if you ain't got no money
I turn my love off and I'm gone
[Blind Willie McTell]
You bettеr see your doctor
Something is wrong with your head
This is not the stovе to brown your bread
Now to get my money, mama
This is how you got to be
[Ruth Kate Williams]
How I got to be?
[Blind Willie McTell]
With both of your legs cut off above your knee
The two bug locust and the German flu
Lice gonna be runnin' up and down your back
Playin' nacky-do-do-do
No hair, no eye, no teeth in your head
You gonna show me a [?] that your great Gramama did
Now before we married you said I was the best
A week after that we lived like two birds in one nest
Six months after that, I could see you with a frown
If I didn't take all my money and bring you half of the town
[Ruth Kate Williams]
They call you a Ford, and that's your name
[Blind Willie McTell]
But believe me mama, I got a Cadillac frame
So you better see your doctor
Something is wrong with your head
This is not the stove to brown your bread, I said
This is not the stove to brown your bread
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Blind Willie McTell

Blind Willie McTell

About “This is Not the Stove to Brown Your Bread” by Blind Willie McTell

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