Why Should I Care? - Tampa Red

Why Should I Care Trk 21 Dsc 2 3: 20 song 44

Tampa Red (Hudson Whittaker)

Aurora, Illinois, Monday, March 14, 1938 Leland Hotel Top Floor

Tampa Red- vocal, piano, Willie Bee James — guitar

Album: The Bluebird Recordings — Tampa Red 1936 — 1938

2 Disc set rca 07 863 66 722−2 1997 bmg

No one to love me No one to care

And the gal I’m loving

She don’t play fair

She gone an left me I shouldn’t worry, why should I care?

I got a mind to ramble

I got a mind to leave the town

'Cause the gal I been a-loving

She’s gone and throwed me down

How could she leave me So cold in hand?

She give my money

To another man

She gone an left me I shouldn’t worry, why should I care?

Good luck is a fortune, mama

And it’s bound to come m’way

I’m down now, baby

But I will be up someday

She pawned my diamond

My watch and chain

Would-a pawned herself

But she felt ashamed

She gone an left me I shouldn’t worry, why should I care?

Sometime I wonder, mama

Who put the jinx on me?

Well, I ain’t no bad fella

And I don’t intend to be She left me thinkin'

Down on my bed

Hopin' and wishing

That I was dead

She gone an left me I shouldn’t worry, why should I care?

Just as sho' as you hear, mama

That big four whistle blow

I’m leavin yo' city, mama

An I won’t be back no mo'.