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 I get to feelin' awful mean and blue My springs are gettin' rusty Sleepin' single like I do I bought me a coffee grinder The best one I could find Well 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 get 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, a deep sea, a 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 mn 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 The way that girl is lately She must have had a piece of it, too You know when you get good lovin' Don't you know shouldn't 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 guys will doublecross And leave you Those guys will doublecross and leave you Those guys will doublecross and leave you Leave you, leave you, leave you With the empty bed blued