《It’s a Good Thing》歌词

[00:00:00] It's a Good Thing - Beale Street Sheiks

[00:00:00] Written by：Traditional

[00:00:01] It's a good thing

[00:00:04] It's a good thing

[00:00:06] Now I wanna do a good thing

[00:00:13] Now when I was young got in my prime

[00:00:16] Chase these different women all the time

[00:00:19] I had a woman got her name was Lucy

[00:00:22] Got almighty devil what that woman wouldn't do

[00:00:25] Another woman got her name Henrietta

[00:00:28] Talk to six straight men say she knows no better

[00:00:31] Another woman got her name was Jenny

[00:00:34] Talked to white folks black folks she wouldn't give a

[00:00:36] Penny

[00:00:37] Another woman got her name was Mattie

[00:00:39] She's a-slipping and a-stalling in some dark alley

[00:00:43] Another woman got her name was Mae

[00:00:46] A rich man only got every day

[00:00:48] I knocked Mae down I stomped in her face

[00:00:52] Half her trouble must both to read

[00:00:55] I went to the workhouse to work out my time

[00:00:57] And the same doggone woman on my mind

[00:01:00] In time I got out I drunk a little gin

[00:01:03] I told right back to Mae's house again

[00:01:06] By time I got in the house that you're ready to have a

[00:01:08] Little fun

[00:01:08] Made me come back about

[00:01:10] I gotten more than one it's a good thing

[00:01:14] It's a good thing

[00:01:17] It's a good thing

[00:01:19] More than one woman

[00:01:22] Now let me tell you a something don't you

[00:01:25] Raise no fuss

[00:01:25] Boys these young women want to do their stuff

[00:01:28] From their legs and from their ankles and do their knees

[00:01:31] You're pulling down the devilment as they can be

[00:01:34] While you're out man trying to this plan

[00:01:37] She's a-winking and a-blinking at another man

[00:01:40] You get out at night you peeping through a crack

[00:01:42] I wonder how long before my man gets back

[00:01:45] A man get back you ready to have a little fun

[00:01:48] Before you get out of sight he got more than one

[00:01:51] It's a good thing

[00:01:53] It's a good thing

[00:01:56] It's a good thing

[00:02:01] And now I'm getting old Lord my head's getting grey

[00:02:04] Lord I'm not bow-legged but I walk that way

[00:02:07] I claim to see the oldest rat of the barge

[00:02:10] I known about the women long before I got grown

[00:02:13] But some in the daytime some at night

[00:02:15] How in the world can you treat any living man right

[00:02:18] Any time you get out you're ready crap you're here

[00:02:21] Turn around and slipping down jumping in your bed

[00:02:24] He jumped in your bed he begin to have a little fun

[00:02:26] Anything you want to know got a little lunch done

[00:02:29] A little lunch done from three to four

[00:02:32] Talk it around before your old man go

[00:02:34] You may be brown-skin you color may be black

[00:02:37] What I say about you women I won't take it back

[00:02:40] I get drunk love to have my fun

[00:02:42] But all the women got more than one

[00:02:45] It's a good thing

[00:02:47] It's a good thing

[00:02:50] It's a good thing

[00:02:52] Now more than one woman never do