508. It's Raining Here

508. It's Raining Here

Something like this, though not the same song, has been reported
from Kentucky (BKH 127). As we have it here it is clearly a
Negro blues song.

'Blue Yodel Number Five.' From the John Burch Blaylock Collection.

1 It's raining here,

Storming on the deep blue sea ;
Oh, it's raining here.
Storming on the deep blue sea.
Ain't no black-headed mamma
Can make a fool out of me.

2 Now I can see a train

Coming down the railroad track ;

I can see that train

Coming down the railroad track.

And I love to hear

The bark of that old smoke stack.

3 Talk about trouble.
That's all I've ever known ;
Talk about trouble,
That's all I've ever known.
Now if 1 hadn't been a man
1 would have stayed at home.

 

1 may need clothes,

1 may need hat and shoes ;

I may need clothes.

I may need hat and shoes.

Makes no difference what I need,

I'll never sing the blues.