Noirsville Tune of the Week

Blues In The Night (My Mama Done Tol’ Me) (Mercer-Arlen) by Cab Calloway & his Orchestra, vocal by Cab Calloway and The Palmer Brothers

 Blues In the Night

My momma done tol' me

When I was in knee-pants

My momma done tol' me, "Son, (What did she tell you?)

A woman gon' sweet-talk (Yeah!)

And give you de glad-eyes, (Ah, ahh...)

But when that sweet-talk is done: (Keep on a-talkin')

A woman's a two-faced

A worrisome thing

Who'll leave you to sing the blues... (The blues...)

In the night." (Yes, in the night)

Now the rain's a-fallin'

Hear the train a-callin' - (Oo-ee...)

My momma done tol' me. (Oh...)

Hey, that lonesome whistle's

Blowin' 'cross the trestle. (Oo-ee...)

My momma done tol' me. (Hey, ahoo-ee, ahoo-ee!)

A clickety-clackin'

And echoin' back at the blues...

In the night

The evenin' breeze - The stars -

The trees a-cryin' and the moon

'll hide its light

When you get the blues

In the night. (It's really tough to get the blues in the night)

Take my word:

The mockingbird

Sings the saddest kind of song;

He knows things are wrong -

And he's right. (Yes, he's right to sing the blues in the night)

From Natchez to Mobile;

From Memphis to St. Joe;

Wherever the four winds blow; (They blow everywhere!)

I been in some big towns, (Yeah!)

And I done heard me some big talk, (Ahh, ahh...)

But there's one thing I know: (Keep a-talkin')

A woman's a-two-faced -

A worrisome thing

Who'll leave you to sing the blues... (The blues)

In the night. (Yes, in the night)

(A woman will leave you singin' the blues)

I know she will -

My momma was right:

The blues in the night