Whoa, black betty (bam-ba-lam). Whoa, black betty (bam-ba-lam). Black betty had a child (bam-ba-lam). The damn thing gone wild (bam-ba-lam). She said, "i'm worryin' outta mind" (bam-ba-lam).
Me and my wife went all over town. And everywhere we went people turned us down. Lord, in a bourgeois town. It's a bourgeois town. I got the bourgeois blues.
Whoa, Black Betty (bam-ba-lam). Whoa, Black Betty (bam-ba-lam). Black Betty had a child (bam-ba-lam). The damn thing gone wild (bam-ba-lam). She said "I'm worryin' outta mind" (bam-ba-lam).