| You Can’t Read My Mind 2:58 Trk 8 Disc 2 29
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| (Tommy McClennan)
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| Tommy McClennan
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| Recorded: Chicago, Illinois Monday, Sept. 15, 1941
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| RCA Studio A, A&R — Lester Melrose
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| Tommy McClennan — vocal & guitar
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| Album: Tommy McClennan Bluebird Recordings 1939−1942
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| 07 863 67 430−2 RCA 1997 Bluebird Blues (BMG)
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| Ernestine, my good lookin' woman
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| Prob’ly she lives upon that hill
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| 'Tutwiler, cheap boozer'
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| Ernestine, my good lookin' woman
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| Prob’ly she lives upon that hill
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| She been tryin' a-quit po' Tommy
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| Whoa, Lord but I love her still
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| She walks the street late at night
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| She won’t treat nobody right
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| She walk the streets ev’ry night
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| She sure don’t treat nobody right
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| Whoa, she drinks her moonshine whiskey
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| But me an her make ev’rything alright
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| Ernestine if you quit Mr. Butler
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| We will make ev’rything alright
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| Ernestine, if you quit Mr. Butler
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| We’ll make ev’rthing alright
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| If I can’t see ya today
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| We may get together tomorrow night
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| You can read my letter
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| Oh, but you can’t read my mind
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| Ennestine, you can read my letter, now-now
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| But I swear you can’t read my mind
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| Sometime you think I’m crazy 'bout ya
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| I’m liable to be quitin' you all the time
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| Now that’s alright, baby
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| What you did last Sunday night
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| I said, it’s all right, Ernestine
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| What you did one Sunday night
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| If I hadn’t a been in my whiskey, too
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| I had liable to 'cause a fuss an a fight
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| 'Play the boss now some'
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| (guitar to end)
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| Yeah! |