Ida Cox
Ida Cox
Ida Cox
Ida Cox & Lovie Austin’s Blues Serenaders
Ida Cox & Lovie Austin’s Blues Serenaders
Ida Cox & Lovie Austin
Ida Cox & Lovie Austin’s Blues Serenaders
Ida Cox & Lovie Austin
Ida Cox
Ida Cox
Ida Cox
Ida Cox
Ida Cox
Ida Cox
Ida Cox
Ida Cox
Ida Cox
Ida Cox
Ida Cox
Ida Cox
First recorded in 1924, Mean Papa was also recorded by Clara Smith. Smith was accompanied by Fletcher Henderson on ukulele and Charlie Dixie on guitar. Ida Cox was accompanied by Lovie Austin and her Blues
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[Verse]
In Mississippi in the Delta Bottoms low
There's a man I know, and he trifles so
He flashes clothes but where he get them no one knows
He seems so slow
But the other day, there came our way
A yellow-skin gal named May
There was murder in her eye, I mean murder in her eye
When we heard her say
[Chorus]
Mean papa, turn in your key
You don't live here no more
Mean papa, just let me be
Stay away from my door
Sheikin' sheiks may burn up Rome
But you just sheiked away a home
So mean papa, turn in your key
You don't live here no more
[Instrumental Break]
[Chorus]
Mean papa, turn in your key
You don't live here no more
Mean papa, just let me be
Stay away from my door
If you don't believe I bake jelly roll good
Just ask anybody in my neighborhood
Mean papa, turn in your key
You don't live here no more
Mean Papa Turn Your Key was written by Bob Miller & Cal DeVoll.