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ma rainey - sterling a. brown lyrics

when ma rainey
comes to town
folks from anyplace
miles aroun’
from cape girardeau
poplar bluff
flocks in to hear
ma do her stuff;
comes flivverin’ in
or ridin’ mules
or packed in trains
picknickin’ fools. . .
that’s what it’s like
fo’ miles on down
to new orleans delta
an’ mobile town
when ma hits
anywheres aroun’

dey comes to hear ma rainey from de little river settlements
from blackbottorn cornrows and from lumber camps;
dey stumble in de hall, jes a*laughin’ an’ a*cacklin’
cheerin’ lak roarin’ water, lak wind in river swamps

an’ some jokers keeps deir laughs a*goin’ in dе crowded aisles
an’ some folks sits dеre waitin’ wid deir aches an’ miseries
till ma comes out before dem, a*smilin’ gold*toofed smiles
an’ long boy ripples minors on de black an’ yellow keys
o ma rainey
sing yo’ song;
now you’s back
whah you belong
git way inside us
keep us strong. . .
o ma rainey
li’l an’ low;
sing us ’bout de hard luck
roun’ our do’;
sing us ’bout de lonesome road
we mus’ go. . .

i talked to a fellow, an’ the fellow say
“she jes’ catch hold of us, somekindaway
she sang backwater blues one day:

‘it rained fo’ days an’ de skies was dark as night
trouble taken place in de lowlands at night

‘thundered an’ lightened an’ the storm begin to roll
thousan’s of people ain’t got no place to go

‘den i went an’ stood upon some high ol’ lonesome hill
an’ looked down on the place where i used to live.’
an’ den de folks, dey natchally bowed dey heads an’ cried
bowed dey heavy heads, shet dey moufs up tight an’ cried
an’ ma lef’ de stage, an’ followed some de folks outside.”

dere wasn’t much more de fellow say:
she jes’ gits hold of us dataway

- sterling a brown lyrics

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