Papa Charlie Jackson Coffee Pot Blues
You can always tell : when your good gal don't want to
be seen
Because your meals ain't ready : the house is never
clean
Just like hunting for a needle : buried in a bed of
sand
That is to find a woman : haven't got no man
Three barrels of whiskey : mama four barrels of gin
She said the *headknots* at home : daddy and you can't
in
It was early one morning : just at the close of four
When Dolly Smith : knocked on Evelyn's door
She jumped up sweet babe : tipped on across the floor
Hollering long tall daddy : don't you knock no more
It was in the loving kitchen : where they made the plot
For to poison her father and her mother : in the
coffeepot
Then they carried the remains : throwed it out in the
*shore*
Killed fifteen chickens
Policeman said to Freddie : what do you know about this
Says I guess : you'll have to go arrest poor Dolly
Smith
Then they carried poor dolly : put her behind the bar
Give him thirty‑nine days : mama and that ain't all
Poor evelyn's in jail : with her back turned to the
wall
Hollering cool kind daddy : you know you the cause it
all
I'm going to sing this time : ain't going to sing no
more
Because my throat's got dry : swear my tonsil's sore
