Michigan Water Blues - Alberta Hunter, Fletcher Henderson, Joe Smith

Michigan water taste like cherry, I said cherry, Lord, I mean cherry wine

Michigan water taste just like cherry wine

And I’m goin' back to Michigan to the one I left behind

Lord, I believe to my soul that man’s got a black cat bone, I said black cat,

I mean bone

Believe to my soul that man’s got a black cat bone

Every time I leave him, I’ve got to hurry back home

Now there’s two people, two kind of people, in this world that I can’t stand

Two kind of people, Lord, I just can’t stand

And that’s a two-faced woman, and a monkey man

I was born in Texas, reared in Tenne-, I mean Tenne-, Lord, Tennessee

I was born in Texas, reared in Tennessee

But that Michigan man sure has made a wreck of me

But I got a letter from my daddy, from my daddy, Lord, full of news

I received a letter, and it was chock full of good news

It said if I come back to Michigan, it will cure me of my Michigan blues