Army Blues Trk 17 Bukka (Booker T. Washington White) personnel Recorded: Memphis, Tennessee [email protected]
When Sam take all your men And to war I'm 'onna be like a coon Uncle Sam take all your men And to war Boys, I'm 'onna be like a coon Ev'ry before the moon go down I won't a-tappin 'fore around I roam
Sam leave me alone I got to watch pretty women the other men is gone Uncle Sam me alone I got to watch pretty women While the other men is Now, it's one thing I do, Uncle Sam I'll write you one of these women me wrong
I want none a-these women Start to fuss an over me 'Cause, you Uncle Sam Bukka goin' behind Don't you start to fussin' And fightin' me 'Cause Sam believe Bukka behind If I don't get to the women In the Old Bukka will be 'fore the sun go down
Babe, I don't want ya'all a-fussin' an fight Don't a-fussin', an fightin' over me I don't want none-a you start to fussin' over me All I want you to do is let me take my Meet me uptown on a Friday or Saturday, I be trampin' on later at Piney
I think I'm have to write Uncle Sam Tell him to me one or two more men back I think I'm have to start to writin' Sam Tell him to send one or two men back I done got to the I done got to the place, I even make it around the sun go down
Uncle Sam, Sam Uncle Sam's train be on the early Uncle Sam's train, Sam's train Come in early in the It will be on the I want you women to go down Union Station in the mo'nin Make like you be in Be glad when gone!
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