Empty Bed Blues

Woke up this mornin'

With an awful achin' head

Woke up this mornin'

With an awful achin' head

My new man left me

I'm just a bloom in an empty bed

Now, when my bed gets empty

I get to feelin' kind of mean and blue

When my bed gets empty

Get to feelin' awful mean and blue

The springs are gettin' rusty

Sleepin' single like I do

I bought me a coffee grinder

The best one I could find

You know that I bought me a brand new coffee grinder

The best one I could find

So he could grind my coffee

Babe, I got a brand new grind

You gotta try, girl, you gotta try

He was a deep sea diver

With a stroke that could not go wrong

Deep, deep sea, deep sea diver

With a stroke that just could not go wrong

He could touch the bottom

And his wind held out so long

Oh, he boiled my cabbage

And he made it awful hot, mmmm

He boiled it, I got to tell you

That he made it, made it awful hot

But when he slipped the bacon in

He overflowed the pot!

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah

What a sweet man he was

I went and told my girlfriend Lou

Remember that old rag of a girl named Lou?

Real sweet man

I went and told my girlfriend Lou

That way that girl is, baby

She must have had a piece of it, too

And now when you get good lovin'

Don't you, don't you spread the news

Don't you spread the news

When you get it and it's good, good, good

You really ought not to

You ought not to spread the news

Because those gals will doublecross you and leave you

Those gals will doublecross you, and they do

Those gals will doublecross you

And leave you, leave you, leave you

Leave you with the empty bed blues!

Zah!