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Boweavil Blues

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Boweavil Blues

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Hey boweavil

don't bring them blues no more

Hey boweavil don't bring them blues no more

Boweavil's here, boweavil's everywhere you go

I'm a lone boweavil, been out a great long time

I'm a lone boweavil, been out a great long time

For to sing this song, to ease boweavil's troublin' mind

I don't want no sugar put into my tea

I don't want no sugar put into my tea

The mens are so evil, I'm scared they might poison me

I went downtown

I bought myself a hat

I brought it back home

I laid it on the shelf

I looked in my bedroom

Tired sleepin' by myself

I'm tired sleepin' by myself

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Bessie Smith performs "Boweavil Blues", and this lyric page sits inside the Bessie Smith catalog on LyroVerse.

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