Lyrics Michigan Water Blues - Alberta Hunter, Fletcher Henderson, Joe Smith

Michigan Water Blues

Michigan water taste like cherry, I said cherry, Lord, I mean cherry wine
Michigan water taste just like cherry wine
And I’m goin' back to Michigan to the one I left behind
Lord, I believe to my soul that man’s got a black cat bone, I said black cat,
I mean bone
Believe to my soul that man’s got a black cat bone
Every time I leave him, I’ve got to hurry back home
Now there’s two people, two kind of people, in this world that I can’t stand
Two kind of people, Lord, I just can’t stand
And that’s a two-faced woman, and a monkey man
I was born in Texas, reared in Tenne-, I mean Tenne-, Lord, Tennessee
I was born in Texas, reared in Tennessee
But that Michigan man sure has made a wreck of me
But I got a letter from my daddy, from my daddy, Lord, full of news
I received a letter, and it was chock full of good news
It said if I come back to Michigan, it will cure me of my Michigan blues