Too Many Dirty Dishes
by Newton 
recording of 1986 
from 
Cold Snap (Alligator ALCD-4752) 
Too many dirty dishes in the sink for just us two 
I said, too many dirty dishes in the sink for just us two 
You got me wonderin' baby 
Who's makin' dirty dishes with you? 
I get up an' go to work in the mo'nin' 
I come right home at night 
When I leave the sink is empty 
When I come back home 
She got 'em stacked up out of sight 
Too many dirty dishes in the sink just for us two 
Well you got me wonderin' baby, 
Who's makin' dirty dishes with you? 
(Spoken: 
Look at this kitchen! 
Pots an' pans, ev'rywhere, it's pitiful! 
Look at all these glasses layin' all up on the sink! 
Looks like she even had a party up in here, too 
You wait 'til I see this woman, when she get home 
That glass over there, got a cigar in it or sump'in 
I don't smoke no cigar 
Um, servin' caviar 
I don't eat no caviar 
What's wrong with this woman? 
All these pots in here, gonna run me some water right here 
Yeah now, you wait 'til I see this woman when she get home 
Pots 'n pans all stacked up here 
There's a pot, let me scrap this pot out 
Oh it's pitiful an' I don't know why this woman come an' have a party 
When I'm at work 
Gettin' all this stuff under my fingernails, 
Run some more water in here 
Yeah, now I can wash these glasses out, wash them up first 
Yeah, that's pretty clean now, though 
Now I got all this, now I gotta work on these pots a little bit more 
Makes me so mad, I don't know what to do 
Thought I was her husband, 'stead a maid! 
Like ol red chili or somethin' all done got dried up on all these pots 
She never fix me none of this good food! 
You wait 'til that woman get home, I'm scrappin' all these pots for her) 
Sings: 
I've done your dirty dishes 
How much am I suppose to take? 
When I left I had corn flakes for breakfast 
Now there's a bone from a T-bone steak 
Too many dirty dishes in the sink for just us two 
You've got me wonderin' baby 
Who in the hell is makin' dirty dishes with you?