Kitchen Man chords by Bessie Smith

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Verse 1
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Madam Buff's
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was quite deluxe
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Servants by the score
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Footmen at each door
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Butlers and maids galore
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But one day Sam, her kitchen

Verse 2
man
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Gave in his notice, he's through
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She cried, "Oh Sam, don't go
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It'll grieve me if you do"
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Verse 3

love his cabbage gravy, his hash

Crazy 'bout his succotash

I can't do without my

kitchen man

Wild about his

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turnip top

Like the way he warms my chop

I can't do without my

Verse 5
kitchen man
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Anybody else can leave
And I would only laugh
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But he means too much to me
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And you ain't heard the half
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Oh, his jelly roll

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is so nice and hot

Never fails to touch the spot

I can't do without my kitchen man

His frankfurters are oh so

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sweet
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How I like his sausage meat
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I  can't do without my
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kitchen man
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Oh, how that

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boy can open clam

No one else is can touch my ham

I can't do without my kitchen man

Verse 9
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When I eat his doughnuts
All I leave is the hole
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Any time he wants to
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Why, he can use my sugar bowl
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Oh, his baloney's really worth a try