Talkin' To Myself Paroles

Look at the crowds out on the corner, wondered who could it be?
It wasn't a thing but the women trying to get to me

I even went down to the depot, with my suitcase in my hand
Crowd of women runned crying: "Mr. Samuel won't you be my man"?

My Mama she told me when I was a boy playin' mumble peg1:
"Don't drink no black cow's milk2, don't you eat no black hen's egg2"

Black man give you a dollar mama, he won't think its nothin' strange
A yellow man will give a dollar but he'll want back ninety-five cents change

If they call me cheater, pretty boy I'll real cheat you
If you will allow me a chance, I'll gnaw your backbone half in two

I took a trip out on the ocean, want the sound of the deep blue sea
I found a crab with a swim trying to do the shimmy

I want to tell you something mama, seem mighty doggone strange
You done made me mess around gal and break my jojo string3 My mama she got a mojo, place she try to keep it hid
Papa Samuel got something to find that mojo with

I even heard a rumblin', deep down in the ground
It wasn't a thing but the women tryin' to run me down