Mean Papa, Turn in Your Key - Ida Cox, Lovie Austin, Tommy Ladnier

In Mississippi in the Delta Bottoms low

There’s a man I know, and he trifles so

He flashes clothes but where he get them no one knows

He seems so slow

But the other day, there came our way

A yellow-skin gal named May

There was murder in her eye, I mean murder in her eye

When we heard her say

Mean papa, turn in your key

You don’t live here no more

Mean papa, just let me be

Stay away from my door

Sheikin' sheiks may burn up Rome

But you just sheiked away a home

So mean papa, turn in your key

You don’t live here no more

Mean papa, turn in your key

You don’t live here no more

Mean papa, just let me be

Stay away from my door

If you don’t believe I bake jelly roll good

Just ask anybody in my neighborhood

Mean papa, turn in your key

You don’t live here no more