Married Man Blues
by 
Blind Joe 
(Willie) Reynolds 
recording of February 1930, Memphis, Tennessee 
from 
Complete Recorded Works of Son House & The Great Delta Blues Singers (Document DOCD 5002) 
When you lose your money, please don't lose your mind 
When you lose your money, please don't lose your mind 
When you lose your woman, please don't fool with mine 
Tell you married men, how to keep your wife at home 
Tell you married men, how to keep your wife at home 
Get you a job, and roll for the man, and try to carry your labor home 
Hmm, hmm, try to carry your labor home 
Tell you married women, how to keep your husbands at home 
Tell you married women, how to keep your husbands at home, hmm hmm hmm 
Take care of your husband's labor, and let these single boys alone 
Make a single woman crazy about a married man 
What make a single woman crazy about a married man 
'Cause he works hard all the time, he puts money in her hand 
Make a married woman so crazy about a single man, hmm hmm hmm 
Make a married woman crazy about a single man 
'Cause her husband might lay down and die, and raise that fella to her hand 
Let me tell you men what these married women will do 
Let me tell you boys what these married women will do 
You will get your money, she will catch up to you 
If you ask me, ain't gonna tell you nothin' else 
If you ask me, ain't gonna tell you nothin' else 
Man's a fool if he thinks, got a whole woman to himself 
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Notes: recorded under the performing name, Blind Willie Reynolds. The song is a variation of his earlier single " 
Outside Woman Blues 
"; 
Note 1: this lyric appears to be common in early blues recordings. It also appears in Tampa Red's recording of his hokum hit " 
Western Bound Blues 
" in May 1932.