It's A Good Thing-Frank Stokes

[ti:] [ar:Frank Stokes] [al:Creator Of The Memphis Blues] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.57]It's a good thing [00:03.55]It's a good thing [00:05.27]I'll borrow you money this evening [00:08.58] [00:12.45]Now when I was young got in my prime [00:15.91]Pick these different women all the time [00:18.58] [00:19.13]I had a woman God her name was Lucy [00:21.84]God almighty devil what that woman wouldn't do [00:25.07]Another woman God her name Henrietta [00:27.49]Talk to six straight men say she knows no better [00:30.58] [00:31.09]Another woman God her name was Jenny [00:33.34]Talked to white folks black folks she wouldn't give a lady [00:36.86]Another woman God her name was Mattie [00:39.19]She's a slipping and a stalling in some dark alley [00:42.78]Another woman God her name was Mae [00:45.41]A white man only got every day [00:48.29]I knocked Mae down I stomped in her face [00:51.35]Half her trouble must have fall in rain [00:53.84] [00:54.35]I went to the workhouse to work out my time [00:56.75]And the same doggone woman on my mind [00:59.99]In time I got out I drunk a little gin [01:02.53]I goed right back to mae's house again [01:05.48]By time I got in the house ready to have a little fun [01:07.90]Made me come back about I gotten more than one [01:10.77]It's a good thing [01:12.73] [01:13.84]It's a good thing [01:15.86] [01:16.37]It's a good thing [01:18.00]I don't borrow to one one one one [01:20.50] [01:21.67]Now let me tell you a little something don't you raise no fuss [01:25.03]Boys these young women want to do their stuff [01:27.76]From legs and from ankles and on to their knees [01:30.66]Trying to devilment as they can be [01:33.36]While you're out man trying to do this plan [01:36.32]She's a winking and a blinking at another man [01:39.26]You get out at night you peeping through a crack [01:42.04]I wonder how long before my man gets back [01:44.62]Your man get back you ready to have a little fun [01:47.41]Before you get out of sight he got more than one [01:49.91]And it's a good thing [01:51.94] [01:52.76]And it's a good thing [01:54.82] [01:55.34]And it's a good thing [01:57.56] [02:01.03]And now I'm getting old Lord my head's getting grey [02:03.93]Lord I'm not bow legged but I walks that way [02:06.82]Claim to see the oldest rat of the barge [02:09.32]I known about the women long before I got grown [02:12.28]Some in the daytime some at night [02:14.63]How in the world can you treat any living man right [02:17.67]Any time you get out you're ready to [02:20.29]Turn around and slipping down jumping in your bed [02:23.13]He jumped in your bed he begin to have a little fun [02:25.77]Anything you want to know got a little lunch done [02:28.46]A little lunch done from three to four [02:31.46]Have to turn down before your old man go [02:33.92]You may be brownskin you color may be black [02:36.49]What I say about you women I won't take it back [02:39.49]I get drunk love to have my fun [02:41.77]But all the women got more than one [02:44.15]It's a good thing [02:46.28] [02:47.01]It's a good thing [02:48.68] [02:49.52]It's a good thing now [02:51.39]Boy one one one I'll never do [02:55.85]