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Furniture Man

by Lil McClintock

on Southern Blues Masters (2008), Before The Blues, Vol. 3: The Early American Black Music Scene (1996), Matchbox Bluesmaster Series, Set 4 (2021)

Well, what insurance has the poor man got, with the furniture man?
If you've got no dough, you've got no show, right back the wagon's gonna stand
He'll take everything that you possess, from a bed tick to a frying pan
If there ever was a devil born without horns, it must've been a furniture man

So take your time, Mr. Brown, take-a your time
All of this furniture are mine
Well-a, this piano and everything, Mr. Cooper had it written down in-a my name
So take your time, Mr. Brown, take-a your time

Now, Sally's "The Boast", everybody knows, she's the swellest coon in town
She give a ball last Friday night, invited all the coons around
Coons come in, chock full of gin, they tried to raise a row
There's nobody home but Sally The Boast, and these am the words she said

"Take your time, Mr. Brown, take-a your time
All of this furniture are mine
Well-a, this piano and everything, Mr. Cooper had it written down in-a my name
So take your time, Mr. Brown, take-a your time"

Now, the furniture man come to my house, I told him that my wife was sick
He looked all around, rummaged through the house, even down-turned up the bed tick
He went in the kitchen, he looked on the stove, he grabbed a fryin' pan
If there ever was a devil born without horns, it must've been a furniture man

So take your time, Mr. Brown, take-a your time
All of this furniture are mine
Well-a, this piano and everything, Mr. Cooper had it written down in-a my name
So take your time, Mr. Brown, take-a your time