Mamie Smith - Crazy blues

Mamie Smith & her Jazz Hounds - Crazy blues (1920)

I can't sleep at night
I can't eat a bite
'cause the man I love
He don't treat me right.
He makes me feel so blue.
I don't know what to do.
Sometime I sit and sigh
And then begin to cry
'cause my best friend
Said his last goodbye.
There's a change in the ocean,
Change in the deep blue sea, my baby,
I'll tell yo,u folks, there ain't no change in me.
My love for that man will always be.
Now I can read his letters.
I sure can't read his mind.
I thought he's lovin' me.
He's leavin' all the time.
Now I see my poor love was blind.
Now I got the crazy blues since my baby went away.
I ain't got no time to lose.
I must find him today.
Now the doctor's gonna do all that he can.
But what you're gonna need is an undertaker man.
I ain't had nothin' but bad news.
Now I got the crazy blues.

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[RecordGuy3434]

i love that picture, how the band is all freaking out and mamie is just chilling and looking cool

[chatnoirechatblanche]

This song is so great...

[ReleasingWeeps]

Wow, this is the first blues record that sold a million copies!

[Polarpiggaming]

i love blues

[natalia rondon]

Real Music

[Anirudh Vijay]

You're too old for all this.

[Zach Melchisedeck]

I loce this kind of music and im 20!

[Mary McElwain]

Nobody can wail out a tune like Mamie, I love her music!!!

[kenneth hedgewick]

I love this kind of music, and I'm 93..

[bloodnokian]

It sounds like New Orleans ragtime and the only thing bluesy about it is the lyrics.

[thejesman]

RIP good music?  Lol, that's so overdramatic.

[NatashaY94]

The first jazz song recorded by an African American artist. Beautiful and historic.