Ethel Waters — Black Spatch Blues

[Verse] Baby, let me talk to you I'm feelin' awfully blue I've got the meanest kind of blues You'll say from Black 'Spatch News But I'm tired of you and that old bluff You're makin' your sweetie rough All this trouble I didn't begin But I can surely end [Chorus] Babe, I heard that you were going away Yes, I heard that you were tired of me and going to stay You've been tellin' it all around That you had sweeties all over town If I didn't like it, I could quit 'Cause you knew of many more that you could get Babe, you said it, 'cause it sounds like you Let me warn you, no tellin' what I might do when I'm blue You can go if you choose But the world will certainly read bad news When I tell you my troubles, you say I've got the Black 'Spatch blues [Instrumental Break] [Outro] You can go if you choose But the world is certainly gonna read bad news 'Cause when I tell you my troubles, you say I've got the Black 'Spatch blues