You Can Mistreat Me Here - Big Joe Williams

Now you can mistreat me here

But you can’t when I go home

You can mistreat me here

But you can’t when I go home

'Cause I got someone there

Will really make you leave me alone

Now I give you all my money, baby

What mo' can a po' man do?

Give you all my money, hoo ooh

What mo' can a po' man do?

You’s a sweet little girl

Baby, but you won’t be true

Now I done tol' you once, now baby

And I don’t wanna have to tell you no mo'

Take your time now, play it right for you over in Chicago

I done tol' you, I don’t wanna tell you no mo'

Tell me what?

You can get all a my lovin' if you let that black man go

Play that boss man

Yeah, yeah

Yeah, yeah

Now my mama tol' me

And my papa startin' cryin'

My mama tol' me

And my papa he startin' cry

What he said?

Said, «Son, you’re too young a man

To have them many women yourself»

I looked at my mama an' papa, now

Now an' I never cracked a smile

Yes, yes, yes, yes

Looked at my mama an' papa

An' I never cracked a smile

What about it?

I said, «The little women I got kill me

Mama, Lord, I don’t mind dyin'»

Dee da, be ba, ba ba ba