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Skin Game Blues
Lucille Bogan (as Bessie Jackson)
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Good mornin' skin game, hollerin' skin game please last
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Good mornin' skin game, hollerin' skin game please last
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I done staked my man to win and I, hope my money will pass
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He's done pawned my house, he got my life at stake
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He's done pawned my house, got my life at stake
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And I've got to get it back, with that money he gamble and make
He never lost no money, until he drawed that black Queen of Spades
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Ooh, lost his money, on that black Queen of Spades
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And my man was need-now beggin', he was in hard luck that very day
When he come back to me, got a dollar or two
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Come back to me, got a dollar or two
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I want him to go back to that skin game, and see what he can do
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If my man, he could only win my money back
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If my man, could only win my money back
I would take a walk downtown, buy me a brand-new pair of shoes and hat
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