Midnight Blues (06-15-23) - Bessie Smith

Daddy, daddy, please come back to me Daddy, daddy, please come back to me Your mama’s lonesome as she can be You left me at midnight, clocks were striking twelve

Left me at midnight, clocks were striking twelve

To face this cruel world all by myself

Woke up at midnight, sad and blue

Missed my daddy from my side

Left alone to bemoan my fate

That’s why I’m sighing, crying, I just can’t refuse

I feel so troubled, heartbroken, too

Woe and misery I can’t hide

At twelve o’clock I unlock my hate

I’ve got the meanest kind of lonesome midnight blues