Taj Mahal — The Bourgeois Blues lyrics

Lyrics

This here’s a song and a story about the bourgeois blues
About bourgeois people in a bourgeois town
Listen here, people, listen to me
Don’t try to find no homes down in Washington D. C
'Cause it’s a bourgeois town
It’s a bourgeois town
I got the bourgeois blues
Gonna spread the news all around
Me and my wife Martha run all over that town
Everywhere we go, the people, they would turn us down
Oh, bourgeois town
Oh, bourgeois town
I got the bourgeois blues
Gonna spread the news around
Some white folks in Washington they know just how
Toss a black man a nickel just to see him scrapin' by
Lord, in that bourgeois town
In that bourgeois town
I got the bourgeois blues
Spread the news all around
Me and my sweet wife Martha, we was standin' upstairs
We heard the white man say «Don't want no black folk up there»
He was a bourgeois man
Livin' in that bourgeois town
I got the bourgeois blues
I’m gonna spread the news all around
The say the home of the brave, land of the free
I don’t wanna be mistreated by no bourgeoisie
Lord, in a bourgeois town
That bourgeois town
I got the bourgeois blues
I’m sure gonna spread the news