#IAmNotAPoet – Wild Women Don’t Have the Blues By: Ida Cox
I hear these women raving ’bout their monkey men
About their fighting husbands and their no good friends
These poor women sit around all day and moan
Wondering why their wandering papas don’t come home
But wild women don’t worry, wild women don’t have the blues.
Now when you’ve got a man, don’t ever 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
because wild women don’t worry, wild women don’t have no 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 no 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 no lie
Wild women are the only kind that ever get by
Wild women don’t worry, wild women don’t have no blues.
Born Ida Prather,25 February 1896 in Toccoa, Habersham County, Georgia, United States. Died 10 November 1967 (aged 71) Genres Jazz, Blues Instruments Vocalist.