The Gin House Blues-Bessie Smith

[ti:The Gin House Blues] [ar:Bessie Smith] [al:Bessie Smith Selected Favorites, Vol. 11] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.54]I've got a sad sad story today [00:05.89] [00:07.32]I've got a sad sad story today [00:11.89] [00:14.51]I'm goin' to the gin house [00:17.78] [00:18.60]When the whistle blows [00:22.73] [00:27.27]My troubles come like rain [00:29.84] [00:30.56]That's all been poured before [00:34.85] [00:40.24]My man keeps me cryin' all night [00:44.67] [00:46.85]My man keeps me cryin' all night [00:50.94] [00:53.20]I'm goin' to the gin [00:55.51]House sit there by myself [01:00.62] [01:04.85]I mean to drown my sorrows [01:08.45] [01:09.22]By sweet somebody else [01:13.43] [01:17.36]I've got those worried [01:19.36]Kind of gin house blues [01:22.39] [01:23.90]I've got those worried [01:25.75]Kind of gin house blues [01:29.10] [01:30.97]I'll make one trip there [01:34.17]To seek to ease my mind [01:38.75] [01:42.50]And if I do I'm gonna make it my last time [01:52.07] [01:54.90]It takes a good smart woman these days [02:00.20] [02:01.32]It takes a good smart woman these days [02:06.41] [02:08.32]To hold her man when these gals [02:12.36]Have got so many tearful ways [02:16.47] [02:20.07]I mean to watch my man don't care [02:24.79]What these other gals say [02:28.50] [02:33.58]I've got to see the kind your man blues [02:38.47] [02:39.90]I've got to see the kind your man blues [02:44.25] [02:45.48]Because these gin house blues [02:48.72] [02:49.37]Is campin' 'round my door [02:53.09] [02:57.81]I want to dry them up so [03:01.53]They won't come back no more