Leadbelly-The Bourgeois Blues

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The Bourgeois Blues

June, 1936

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Rock and roll is being invented as the track progresses

MrYossarianuk

Everyone suffers from the bourgeois blues. Vale, Leadbelly.

edharbas

A classic. Meaning it's just as relevant today as when it was recorded.

tonyharrison

👈 This here white folk ❤'s Led Belly. He can go wherever the hell he wants. R.I.P. Led Belly, and thank you for bearing witness with you beautiful voice so that we never let racism stay in the dark.

inoshikachokonoyarobakayar

Love how he gives the Lomax's a shout out.

NT-qjsy

Amazing music even after all these years!✌👍👏👏👏👏👏👏👣👏👏👏👏

BrendonTilley-seso

This may be the best, most joyfully intense, version of this tune I ever heard. Thanks!

BarKafka

After 400 years of being hunted...my soul weeps for the instinct of fear burned into. Our darker skin brothers.... Mankind is continuously making life miserable because of The song about. If white alright, brown stick around, black! Jump back jump back....leadbelly is only singing about Just as the Ballad of Tom Jose written before Grapes of Music sets our spirit free and heals.... Best version of this song heard by me also.... Love the Lomax verse.... Best wishes to all.

ernesthicks

Bourgeois Blues lyrics- (Keep in mind that I worked pretty hard to transcript this since the recording itself is so old, I didn’t perfect it, but it’s not like you’re guaranteed quality content on the YouTube comment section. Also, keep in mind that I tried to make this kid-friendly, while also trying not to whitewash it too much).

Oh, it’s a bourgeois man. Whoo, living in a bourgeois town. I got the bourgeois blues, and I’m gonna spread the news. Yes I’m gonna spread it, everywhere I go. I just made a song about bourgeois blues.

I and Ms. Monica and Mr. Alan Lomack, his wife and my wife was riding all around Washington DC. And if anyone wants to know about Washington, DC then they come to me, and I can talk about it. We rode all around in the rain. No colored people would let me in because I was with a white man. And that’s a bourgeois place, ‘cause it can’t let in colored people with white people.

Me and Martha went around town. I heard a man say you can’t come around, he’s a bourgeois man, whoo, living in a bourgeois town. I got the bourgeois blues, and I’m sure gonna spread the news.

We went to a colored place there, and he tell me. He feels that too, everyone can eat some food, but I had some of the white people with me. He would let them in, but he told me just before I left, the white woman did, that when I come back with a white man, I could eat. But when I came back, I found a man, he was the manager. I asked him, he didn’t nod his head, he shook it. And knew that Kif couldn’t just stand there. And the boys and women would work for $90, 000. His name was Kif Kilheir (maybe). That’s a bourgeois town, nobody leaves.

Me and Martha were standing up there, I heard a white man say I don’t want no negroes up there, he’s a bourgeois man, whoo, living in a bourgeois town. I got the bourgeois blues, and I’m sure gonna spread the news.

Now, me and Martha were standing upstairs, we done been there all night. But the man didn’t know we was there. But we was going out and coming to and fro. So we met the man, Martha and I went out and contacted Mr. Lomack. But I heard this white man squabble with Mr. Alan Lomack’s wife and Martha. So, Mr. Alan Lomack gave him a toast and talked to him. And he was standing up there, and said, Martha said to me, “Baby, I think he’s talking about us.” I say, “Yes, I’ll just turn my radio on and listen in.” You know what I heard him say?

Me and Martha, were standing up there, I head a white man shout “I don’t want no negroes up there.” He’s a bourgeois man, living in a bourgeois town. I got the bourgeois blues and I’m gonna spread the news.

I’m gonna tell all the colored people, I want them to understand, why this ain’t no place for a colored man, ‘cause it’s a bourgeois town. Whoo, it’s a bourgeois town. I got the bourgeois blues and I’m sure gonna spread the news.

The white folk didn’t want me, but they know how, to chuck a colored man a nickel, just to see a ni***r bow. Oh, it’s a bourgeois town, whoo, it’s a bourgeois town. I got the bourgeois blues and I’m gonna spread the news all around.

Oh yes. Oh, right, ‘cause this is right behind Christmas Day, better known as the 26th of December. Everybody always should remember the bourgeois blues.

I got something to tell you, right before I go, I want everybody to know lord it’s a bourgeois town. Whoo, it’s a bourgeois town. I got the bourgeois blues, sure gonna spread the news.

I want all the colored people, to listen to me, don’t ever try to get no home in Washington DC, ‘cause it’s a bourgeois town, whoo, it’s a bourgeois town. I got the bourgeois blues and I’m sure gonna spread the news.

Oh thank you, thank you, thank you. Who got the bourgeois blues and everything.

imaddatu

Very fine old Blues, thank you so much for sharing!

thomasdungl

Sublime, Potente, intenso, con un ritmo creciente y un final de canción apoteósico, dejando unos punteos al final de la pista que marcan el camino por donde 20 años despues discurriria el Rock´roll. Leadbelly es uno de esos genuinos pioneros de la musica moderna.

Kekoñomiro

I love that fantastic Blues by Leadbelly: The Bourgeois Blues. He played the original Blues! With his 12 string guitar. Nobody could play this instrument like Leadbelly.The only one, who could play that Song is in my opinion the great Pete Seeger. He learned it from Leadbelly!

wolfdietrichhabermann

I’m not even African American and this song gives me chills too 💚 Leadbelly always layin down the law and preaching it! Great song 👌❤️✌️ if you put yourself in the song and think about it lol that would be terrifying.!!! Yes my emotions are a bit enhanced atm for I just took some Mushrooms an hour or so ago but like god damn man music is awesome but for me my favorite songs are always intensified tenfold when doing any psychedelic 👽💚 RIP thoo Leadbelly. I’ll give you the mic now my good sir! See y’all in hell ;) heaven would suck honestly haha

stantheraccoondunn

I had another version back in the 60s. It was either on a Folkways Record or on one of the 78s I had. I'm going to see if that version is on youtube as well. If I remember correctly, in that version Leadbelly talked less, there was as least one more verse, and the chorus was slightly different - I'm gonna spread the news all around.

rossharmonics

I've heard better versions of Ledbelly doing this--but the free-wheelin' political banter is worth it's weight in gold. <3 Thank you.

JanetDaley-solo