Give you the big eye
Howlin' cross the trestle
My mama done tol' me
A worrisome thing leave you
From Natchez to Mobile
A man is a two-face
The evening breeze will start the trees to cryin'
But when the big talk is done
His saddest, saddest kind of song
Now you know the rain is fallin'
The blues in the night
And the moonlight hides its light
Oh, that lonesome whistle
And I heard me some big talk too
Yeah, I've been to the big towns
A worrisome thing who'll leave you
My mama done tol' me so
But when the sweet talk is done
Hear that train callin' whooee
A man's gonna sweet talk
My mama done tol' me
A man is a two-face
From Memphis to St. Joe
Singing the blues in the night
He knows things are wrong and he's right
Clicketyclacks, echoin' back
When you get the blues in the night
Wherever the four winds blow
Oh, take my word the mockingbird will sing
Awhooee, ahwhooee
Singing oh the blues in the night
