Wild Women Don't Have The Blues
by 
Ida Cox 
recording of July 1924 
from 
Complete Recorded Works, Vol. 2 (1924-1925) (Document 5323) 
I hear these women raving 'bout their 
monkey men 
About their trifling 
husbands and their no good friends 
These poor women sit around all day and moan 
Wondering why their wandering papa's don't come home 
But wild women don't worry, wild women don't have no blues 
Now when you've got a man, don't never be on the square 
'Cause if you do he'll have a woman everywhere 
I never was known to treat no one man right 
I keep 'em working hard both day and night 
'Cause wild women don't worry, wild women don't have their blues 
I've got a disposition and a way of my own 
When my man starts kicking I let him find another home 
I get full of good liquor, walk the streets all night 
Go home and put my man out if he don't act right 
Wild women don't worry, wild women don't have their blues 
You never get nothing by being an angel child 
You better change your ways and get real wild 
I wanna tell you something, I wouldn't tell you a lie 
Wild women are the only kind that really get by 
'Cause wild women don't worry, wild women don't have their blues 
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Note 1: trifling, to talk in a jesting or mocking manner or with intent to delude or mislead. Also, to treat someone or something as unimportant.