Mama Why Don't You Be Yourself? Lyrics - First Recordings 1930 - 1932 - Walter Davis

Mama, Why Don't You Be Yourself Trk 18 3:01 

Walter Davis 

(Walter Davis) 

Walter Davis - vocal, Roosevelt Sykes (Willie Kelly) piano 

Dallas, Texas Wednesday February 10, 1932 

Album: Walter Davis First Recording 1930-1932 

JSP Records #605 RCA #706741-1 

Transcriber: [email protected] 

My baby looked for me 

Way late hours in the night 

My baby, she looked for me 

Way late hours in the night 

But Lord, I never came home 

'Till the sun was shinin' bright 

Now 

Mama, why don't you try to be yo'self? 

'Ah, be yo'self 

Mmm, mama, why don't you try to be yo'self? 

Because I always will love you, baby 

When I don't love nobody else 

I was 'cused of murdering 

An I had to deny my name 

Now, I was 'cused of murdering 

An I had to deny my name 

Now my girl don't love me 

But my mother love me just the same 

The girl that I'm loving 

She don't mean me no good 

The girl that I'm loving 

She don't mean me no good 

An I don't love nobody 

'Round in this neighborhood 

Spoken: 

'I been beggin' her for two weeks 

Just to be herself 

My babe don't treat me good, no mo' 

Keep me worried all the time' 

'Play them blues for me'. 

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