It’s A Good Thing - Frank Stokes

It's a good thing
It's a good thing
I'll borrow you money this evening
Now when I was young got in my prime
Pick these different women all the time
I had a woman God her name was Lucy
God almighty devil what that woman wouldn't do
Another woman God her name Henrietta
Talk to six straight men say she knows no better
Another woman God her name was Jenny
Talked to white folks black folks she wouldn't give a lady
Another woman God her name was Mattie
She's a slipping and a stalling in some dark alley
Another woman God her name was Mae
A white man only got every day
I knocked Mae down I stomped in her face
Half her trouble must have fall in rain
I went to the workhouse to work out my time
And the same doggone woman on my mind
In time I got out I drunk a little gin
I goed right back to mae's house again
By time I got in the house ready to have a little fun
Made me come back about I gotten more than one
It's a good thing
It's a good thing
It's a good thing
I don't borrow to one one one one
Now let me tell you a little something don't you raise no fuss
Boys these young women want to do their stuff
From legs and from ankles and on to their knees
Trying to devilment as they can be
While you're out man trying to do this plan
She's a winking and a blinking at another man
You get out at night you peeping through a crack
I wonder how long before my man gets back
Your man get back you ready to have a little fun
Before you get out of sight he got more than one
And it's a good thing
And it's a good thing
And it's a good thing
And now I'm getting old Lord my head's getting grey
Lord I'm not bow legged but I walks that way
Claim to see the oldest rat of the barge
I known about the women long before I got grown
Some in the daytime some at night
How in the world can you treat any living man right
Any time you get out you're ready to
Turn around and slipping down jumping in your bed
He jumped in your bed he begin to have a little fun
Anything you want to know got a little lunch done
A little lunch done from three to four
Have to turn down before your old man go
You may be brownskin you color may be black
What I say about you women I won't take it back
I get drunk love to have my fun
But all the women got more than one
It's a good thing
It's a good thing
It's a good thing now
Boy one one one I'll never do