Lyrics Mean Papa, Turn in Your Key - Ida Cox, Lovie Austin, Tommy Ladnier

Mean Papa, Turn in Your Key

In Mississippi in the Delta Bottoms low
There’s a man I know, and he trifles so
He flashes clothes but where he get them no one knows
He seems so slow
But the other day, there came our way
A yellow-skin gal named May
There was murder in her eye, I mean murder in her eye
When we heard her say
Mean papa, turn in your key
You don’t live here no more
Mean papa, just let me be
Stay away from my door
Sheikin' sheiks may burn up Rome
But you just sheiked away a home
So mean papa, turn in your key
You don’t live here no more
Mean papa, turn in your key
You don’t live here no more
Mean papa, just let me be
Stay away from my door
If you don’t believe I bake jelly roll good
Just ask anybody in my neighborhood
Mean papa, turn in your key
You don’t live here no more