Behind the recordings
Bessie Smith: Songs & Lyrics
54 songs to explore
Lyrics Collection
Alphabetical- 'Tain't Nobody's Bizness If I Do
- A Good Man Is Hard to Find
- After You've Gone
- Aggravatin' Papa
- Alexander's Ragtime Band
- Any Woman's Blues
- At the Christmas Ball
- Baby Doll
- Baby Won't You Please Come Home
- Backwater Blues
- Black Mountain Blues
- Boweavil Blues
- Cake Walkin' Babies from Home
- Careless Love
- Careless Love Blues
- Do Your Duty
- Down Hearted Blues
- Down In the Dumps
- Dyin' By the Hour
- Dying Gambler's Blues
- Empty Bed Blues, Pt. 1
- Gimme A Pigfoot
- Gimme a Pigfoot and a Bottle of Beer
- Graveyard Dream Blues
- Haunted House Blues
- I Ain't Gonna Play No Second Fiddle
- I Ain't Got Nobody
- I'm Wild About That Thing
- Jail-House Blues
- Jazzbo Brown from Memphis Town
- Kitchen Man
- Lock and Key
- Lost Your Head Blues
- Me and My Gin
- Mean Old Bedbug Blues
- Muddy Water (A Mississippi Moan)
- My Man Blues
- Need a Little Sugar In My Bowl
- Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out
- On Revival Day (A Rhythmic Spiritual)