It's Hard To Be Lonesome 2:36 Trk 14 Disc 1
Tommy McClennan
Recorded: Friday May 10, 1940 Chicago, Illinois
RCA Studio C., A&R - Lester Melrose
Tommy McClennan - vocal & guitar, unk string bass
Album: RCA Bluebird Recordings 1939 -1942
RCA 07863, 67430-2 (BMG Music) 1997
Ain't it hard to be lonesome
When you're sleepin' all by yo'self?
Ain't it hard to be lonesome
When you're sleepin' all by yo'self?
Now, and the one that you lovin'
Has done gotten in touch wit' somebody else
I love my, baby
An I tell the world I do
Lord, I love my baby
And I tell the world I do
Now, mama some a these days
I hope she come to love me, too
'Play it a while'
(guitar)
Yeah!
Yeah!
Yea-ah!
I don't want none-a-these funny women
If they don't know how to rob an steal
I don't want none-a-these funny women
If they don't know how to rob an steal
'What'd you gonna do?'
You work yo'self to death
In some po' farmer's field
What you want wit' a woman, now-now
An she don't no yes from no?
Yeah!
What you want wit' a woman, woo-ooo
She don't know yes from no?
An what you want, wit'
One of them good lookin' women?
An she don't know gee from haw?
Yeah!
Yeah!
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