Milk Cow Blues
Love's Hidden Dance: Milk Cow Blues Unveiled
Lyrics
Now asks sweet mama
Requesting affectionately from a woman
Lemme be her kid
Asking to be treated like her child
She says, 'I might get boogied
She expresses concern about being entangled in trouble
Like to keep it hid'
Desires to keep her affairs private
Well, she looked at me
Observing the woman's reaction to the request
She be-gin to smile
She begins to smile in response
Says, 'I thought I would use you
Expresses intent to use the speaker for a short period
For my man a while
For a temporary relationship
'Tha-at you just don't my husband
Warning not to be caught by her husband
Catch you there
Advising to avoid her husband noticing
Now, just-just don't let my
Reiteration of the caution
Husband catch you there'
Reiterating the warning not to get caught by her husband
Now, went upstair
Heading upstairs to prepare to leave
To pack my leavin' trunk
Gathering belongings to depart
I never saw no whiskey
No sight of whiskey
The blues done made me, sloppy drunk
Blues have caused drunkenness
Say, I never saw no whiskey
Reiterating the absence of whiskey
Blues done made me sloppy drunk
Attributing drunkenness to the blues
Now, I never saw no whiskey
Reaffirmation of not seeing whiskey
But the blues done made me sloppy drunk
Blaming the blues for intoxication
Now some said, disease
Various opinions on the cause of a condition
Some said it was, degree'in
Debating the reason behind a situation
But it's the slow consumption
Slow deterioration causing death gradually
Killin' you by degrees
Describing the slow, progressive nature of the decay
Lord, it's the slow consumption
Reiterating the slow, gradual decline
Killin' you by degrees
Emphasizing the gradual and deadly nature
Now, it's-a slow consumption
Reaffirming the slow, lethal process
An it's killin' you by degrees.
Continuing to stress the gradual, fatal decay
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