Springtime coming : and the grass all growing green And my time has come : where the blues don't worry me There's so many women : there's so many different kinds When one quit me : it's sure to worry my mind My mama give me a lock : and my papa give me the key Then after I know how : to lock them blues up for me I got northern women : I got southern women too I ain't going to tell the northern women : what the southern women can do