I’m Looking for a Woman Who Knows How to Treat Me Right Songtext
von Papa Charlie Jackson

I′m looking for a woman nowadays
That knows how to treat me right
I haven't never been married
And I don′t know what--a wife
Aw, baby, don't you dance so light
I know you're fixin′ to stay out all night
I am looking for the woman nowadays
Knows how to treat me right

(Now can you people find me a woman nowadays that knows how to treat
Me right? I don′t know nothing,
And I don't believe in stayin′ away from home all night)
Now, mama, don't you dance so rough
I know you′re fixin' to strut your stuff
Can you find me a woman nowadays
Knows how to treat me right

(I went out yesterday evening, I call myself out visiting.
A lady had invited me over to dinner.
Now I′m gonna tell you people just what she had on her table)


She had turnip greens, turnip greens
It's something that I don't eat
Turnip greens, turnip greens
Walk around the corner and you′ll meet
You′ll meet cabbage and cornbread and buttermilk, too
It 'tain′t no tellin' what a woman won′t do
Turnip greens, turnip greens
Something that I don't eat

Oh, mama, don′t you dance so light
Fixin' to slip off and stay out all night
I'm looking for me, a woman nowadays
Knows how to treat me right

(Now I′m going to get me a woman, too,
That knows how to treat me right. I′m a man with a family,
And I swear I ain't gonna stay out away from home all night)

Oh, mama, don′t you dance so rough
I know you're fixing to strut your stuff
I′m looking for me, a woman nowadays
Knows how to treat me right, I mean
Knows how to treat me right