(huddie ledbetter/alan lomax) (g7) - (c7) - (g) - (d7) (g7) me and my wife went all over town And everywhere we went people turned us down Lord, in a (c7) bourgeois town It's a (g) bourgeois town I got the (d7) bourgeois blues Gonna spread the news all a- (g) round Home of the brave, land of the free I don't wanna be mistreated by no bourgeoisie Lord, in a bourgeois town Uhm, the bourgeois town I got the bourgeois blues Gonna spread the news all around Well, me and my wife we were standing upstairs We heard the white man say ¡°i don't want no niggers up there¡± Lord, in a bourgeois town Uhm, bourgeois town I got the bourgeois blues Gonna spread the news all around Well, them white folks in washington they know how To call a colored man a nigger just to see him bow Lord, it's a bourgeois town Uhm, the bourgeois town I got the bourgeois blues Gonna spread the news all around I tell all the colored folks to listen to me Don't try to find you no home in washington, dc ¡®cause it's a bourgeois town Uhm, the bourgeois town I got the bourgeois blues Gonna spread the news all around