Black Mountain Blues (07-22-30) - Bessie Smith

Old black mountain

Tried to spit in your face

Old black mountain

Tried to spit in your face

Babys grubbing whiskey

Oh she’s practising ???

Old black mountain

Mean as they can be Old black mountain

Mean as they can be They use gunpowder

Just to sweeten the tea

Had a girl in black mountain

Sweetest girl in town

Had a girl in black mountain

Sweetest girl in town

But she met a sweet black man

Then she threw me down

Well, old black mountain

Can’t keep man in jail

Well, old black mountain

Can’t keep man in jail

Sure to call him guilty

Judge will cry and bail

I’m bound for black mountain

Me and my razor and my gun

I’m bound for black mountain

Me and my razor and my gun

Gonna cut her if she stands there

And shoot her if she runs