C.C. Rider

C.C. Rider
(Ma Rainey)

Whoa C.C. Rider see what you have done
You made me love you, now your gal has come
I said you, you, oh you made me love you
Oh, now your gal has come

Well I’m going away baby
And I won’t be back till fall
No, no, no, going away baby
Won’t be back to the fall
Listen, if I find me a good man
I won’t be back at all

Oh C.C. Rider, you tell me, you tell me
Where’d you sleep last night
I notice your shoes aint buttoned
Your clothes don’t fit you quite right
Oooo, you did not come home
Until the sun was shining bright, yeah

Yeah well, I’m gonna by me a pistol
Long as I am tall, yeah
Yeah, and I’m gonna shoot that man
And then I’m gonna go catch the cannonball
Cause if that man don’t love me
He don’t love no one at all

No, no, no, no, no
See C.C. Rider
Whoa see C.C. Rider
Ya tell me why did you do it, C.C. Rider
Oh would you do it, C.C. Rider
C.C., oh C.C., oh C.C., oh C.C.

C.C. Rider, you got ta
You got to see what you’ve done
You made me love ya
Now your gal has come
Oooh, you made me love ya
Now your gal has come
I said you, oh you made me love you
Oh, now your gal
Her name is Roseland, she lives down the block
Has Come