Blues Lyrics: Cousin Joe

Joseph Pleasant, singer, guitarist and pianist, was born in Wallace, Louisiana in 1907. He made his best-known recordings in the 1940s, although he toured Europe as late as 1971. "Beggin' woman" from 1947 is one of his biggest hits. He was also known as Pleasant Joe and Smiling Joe.

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• Beggin' Woman

Beggin' Woman

Recorded by Cousin Joe and the Sam Price Trio (New York, 19 November 1947). On the LP: "Out came the blues" (Coral CP 58, 1970)

BEGGIN' WOMAN (Sam Price - Pleasant Joseph)

I've got a beggin' woman
She keep on beggin' me
She'll even try to beg
A possum out of a tree

You know she's a beggin' woman
And I can see it in her eyes
She's got a handful of gimme
And a mouthful of much obliged

She begs in the mornings
She sleeps in the afternoons
She stays up all night
To beg the man in the moon

You know she's a beggin' woman
And I can see it in her eyes
She's got a handful of gimme
And a mouthful of much obliged

She'll beg Aunt Penny
And she'll beg Uncle Jake
She'll even beg the sweetness
Out of a ginger cake

You know she's a beggin' woman
And I can see it in her eyes
She's got a handful of gimme
And a mouthful of much obliged

She'll beg the plant out of your plantation
Beg New York to a Flag Station
She'll even hang around
To beg the United Nations

You know she's a beggin' woman
And I can see it in her eyes
She's got a handful of gimme
And a mouthful of much obliged

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