Blues In The Night (My Mama Done Tol' Me)

Ella Fitzgerald
Album : The Harold Arlen Songbook Vol.1 & Vol.2 (Digitally Remastered)

My mama done tol' me
when I was in pigtails
My mama done tol' me Son
A man'll sweet talk and give ya the big eye
But when the sweet talkin's done
A man's a two face
A worrisome thing who'll leave ya to sing
The blues in the night
Now the rain's a fallin'
Hear the train's a callin' whooee
My mama done tol' me
Hear dat lonesome whistle
Blowin' 'cross the trestle whooee
My mama done tol' me a whooee ah whooee
Ol' clickety clack's a echoin'
Back th' blues in the night
The evenin' breeze'll start the trees to cryin'
And the moon'll hide it's light
When you get the blues in the night
Take my word the mockingbird'll sing
The saddest kind o' song
He knows things are wrong
And he's right
From Natchez to Mobile from
Memphis to St  Joe
Wherever the four winds blow
I been in some big towns an'
heard me some big talk
But there is one thing I know
A man's a two face
A worrisome thing who'll leave ya to sing
The blues in the night
The evenin' breeze'll start the trees to cryin'
And the moon'll hide it's light
When you get the blues
Blues in the night
Take my word the mockingbird'll sing
The saddest kind o' song
He knows things are wrong
And he's right
From Natchez to Mobile
from Memphis to St  Joe
Wherever the four winds blow winds blow
I been in some big towns an'
heard me some big talk
But there is one thing I know
A man's a two face
A worrisome thing who'll leave ya to sing
The blues in the night
Yes babe only only blues in the night