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Artist: Fred McDowell
Canonical path: /fred-mcdowell/black-minnie
Related lyric paths: 6
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Black Minnie
Read Black Minnie lyrics by Fred McDowell on LyroVerse, with linked artist context and related song paths.
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Black Minnie
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Well, it is po' Black Minnie
She ain't got change in clothes
Lordy, stands in her shame
To see a woman I know
Lordy
Stands, now
See that woman, now
Oh, that woman, now
Lord, that woman got
Lord, that woman
(guitar)
Well, then 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
7, 8, 9
Say you, count down blues
You count them women's a-mine
Lord, now
Count down blues
Count down women
Lord, them women
Lord, them womens down
Lord, them womens down
Lord, oh Lord
Lord those women
Lord, Lord, Lord
Lord, oh count them down
Count down womens
(guitar)
Lord, I hate to go down that bureau
By myself
Well if I, don't car' you
Gon' car' somebody else
Lord, I
Need to go down
Need to go down
Bureau bound
By myself
Lord
Lord, I am
Lord, Lord, Lord
Lord, I hate goin' down
Bureau bound.
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Fred McDowell performs "Black Minnie", and this lyric page sits inside the Fred McDowell catalog on LyroVerse.
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