Negro workaday songs

by Howard Washington Odum; Guy Benton Johnson

Can’t please my man an’ my sweetheart, too,

Can’t please my man an’ my sweetheart, too,

Can’t please my man an’ my sweetheart, too,

Dere’s misery in dis lan’, dis lan’.

My man makes money an’ my sweetheart makes none,

My man makes money an’ my sweetheart makes none,

My man makes money an’ my sweetheart makes none,

Dere’s misery in dis lan’, dis lan’.

My sweetheart makes love an’ my man makes none,

My sweetheart makes love an’ my man makes none,