Tired As I Can Be
Tired As I Can Be
Original Text
Anna Stong Bourgeois, Blueswomen: Profiles of 37 Early Performers, with an Anthology of Lyrics, 1920-1945 (Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland, 1996): 22.
1I wait all the winter and I wait all fall.
3And now I'm tired, tired as I can be.
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7And you never did win, you kept on askin' for more.
8And now I'm tired, I ain't gonna do it no more.
9And when I leave you this time you won't know where I go.
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11My house rent's due, they done put me outdoors.
13I done got tired of your low down dirty ways.
14And your sister say you been dirty, dirty all your days.
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16I never will forget when the time was good.
17I caught you standin' out yonder in the tiny woods.
18And now I'm tired, tired as I can be.
19And I'm goin' back south to my used to be.
Notes
2] ashes hauled: have an orgasm. Back to Line
4] blues: sad feelings, depression, bad times. Back to Line
6] spin my door: have intercourse with (e.g., current terms "front door" and "back door"). Back to Line
12] V8 Ford: fast Ford Motor Company car with an eight-cylinder engine. Back to Line
RPO poem Editors
Ian Lancashire
RPO Edition
2009
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