The Bourgeois Blues

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[Verse 1]

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Me'n my wife, went all over town
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Everywhere we go the people would 
turn us down
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Lawd in a bourgeois town,
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Hee it's a bourgeois town,
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I got the bourgeois blues, I'm 
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gonna spread the news all around


[Verse 2]

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Me an' Marthy we was standing 
upstairs
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I heard a white man say "I don't 
want no niggers up there"
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Lawd he's a bourgeois man
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Hee it's a bourgeois town,
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I got the bourgeois blues, I'm 
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gonna spread the news all around


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[Verse 3]

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Home of the brave land of the free
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I don't wanna be mistreated by no 
bourgeoisie
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Lawd in a bourgeois town
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Hee it's a bourgeois town,
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I got the bourgeois blues, I'm 
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gonna spread the news all around


[Instrumental]

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[Verse 4]

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Me'n my wife went all over town.
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Everywhere we go the colored people 
would turn us down
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Lawd in a bourgeois town
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Hee it's a bourgeois town,
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I got the bourgeois blues, I'm 
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gonna spread the news all around


[Verse 5]

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The white folks in Washington they 
know how
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Chuck a colored man a nickel just to
 see him bow
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Lawd in a bourgeois town
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Hee it's a bourgeois town,
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I got the bourgeois blues, I'm 
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gonna spread the news all around


[Verse 6]

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Tell all the colored folks to listen
 to me
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Don't try to buy no home in 
Washington D.C.
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'Cause it's a bourgeois town
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Hee it's a bourgeois town
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I got the bourgeois blues an' I'm 
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gonna spread the news