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