[ti:Red Cross Blues] [ar:Walter Roland] [al:Walter Roland Vol. 1 (1933)] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Red Cross Blues - Walter Roland [00:11.05]Said me and my good girl talked last night [00:14.08]Me and her talked for hours [00:16.87]She wanted me to go to the red 'cross store [00:19.08]And get a sack of that red 'cross flour [00:21.20]I told her no great Lord said [00:25.75]Woman I sure don't want to go [00:32.32]Say I have to go to hill's 'cause [00:35.13]I got to go to that red 'cross store [00:43.36]Say you know them red 'cross folks [00:44.76]There they sure do treat you mean [00:49.00]Don't want to give you nothin' but [00:51.48]Two three cans of beans [00:52.73]Now I told 'em no great Lord girl [00:57.74]I don't want to go [01:03.31]I said you know I cannot go to hill's [01:06.22]I'm got to go yonder to that red 'cross store [01:13.56]But you know the governor done take it [01:15.15]In charge now said he gon' treat everybody right [01:18.99]He gon' give 'em two cans of beans now [01:21.50]And one little can of tripe [01:23.39]Now I told 'em no great Lord girl [01:27.14]I don't want to go [01:32.38]I think I better wait till [01:33.48]I get a job and go to [01:35.39]Hill's 'cause other than that [01:36.58]I've got to go to that red 'cross store [01:42.73]Say you go up there early in the mornin' [01:44.54]Said he ask you boy how you feel [01:48.26]Gettin' ready to give you a nickel's worth [01:49.80]Of rice and a bag of that boultin' meal [01:52.21]Now I told him no great Lord girl [01:57.05]I don't want to go [02:02.18]Says you know I cannot go to hill's [02:04.57]I'm got to go yonder to that red 'cross store [02:12.30]But you know say I got girl now [02:13.83]Says she gon' get herself a job [02:18.12]She gon' take care of me now while the times is hard [02:22.02]And I told her yes great Lord [02:26.08]Then I won't have to go [02:31.64]I said when you get paid off we'll go to [02:33.53]Hill's I won't have to go to that red 'cross store [02:41.86]But you know say a girl told me this mornin' [02:43.76]That she loved me 'cause I work two days a week [02:47.16]I told her I worked for the red 'cross [02:49.04]Didn't get nothin' but somethin' to eat [02:51.52]She told me no great Lord says [02:56.17]Man I don't want to go [03:01.71]She said [03:02.05]But are you is carryin' me to [03:03.24]Hill's says [03:04.65]I say [03:05.01]I take you to that red 'cross store