Harry Roy - Since Black Minnie's Got the Blues

Описание: From the British film Everything is Rhythm (1936). Mabel Mercer sings with Harry Roy and chorus. Speciality Tap Dancer is Johnny Nitt.

Lyrics

Harlem is weeping and wailing
They’ve heard the saddest of news
No one gambles now
They’ve forgotten how
Since Black Minnie’s got the blues
Hi de Hi de Ho Minnie’s got the blues

No more they sing the lowdown blues songs
There’s not a song that they choose
No one orders gin, drinking is a sin
Since Black Minnie’s got the blues
Hi de Hi de Ho Minnie’s got the blues

Everything is down in Harlem
Ever since her man in gaol
She can’t even write him letters
and they won’t let him out on bail
Poor frail.

Devils would like to be angels
If all all their sins they could lose
Not a soul in town kicks the gong around,
Since Black Minnie’s got the blues.
Hi de Hi de Ho Minnie’s got the blues.

Hear ye, hear ye one and all
Harlem is acting strange
Hear ye, hear ye, big and small
Harlem has had a change
Poor Black Minnie’s lost her man
How she moans, how she can
Hear ye, hear ye, one and all
There’s no life among the Black and Tans

Harlem is weeping and wailing
They’ve heard the saddest of news
No one gambles now
They’ve forgotten how
Since Black Minnie’s got the blues
Hi de hi de Ho Minnie’s got the blues.

Not a soul in town
Kicks the gong around
Since Black Minnie’s got the blues
Singing Hi de Ho
Minnie’s got the blues.