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Bourgeois Blues: Music and Lyrics by Hubert Ledbetter AKA Leadbelly except those about you-know-who by Terry King-----

WIKIPEDIA page about this song DEFINITION: Bourgeois: of or characteristic of the middle class, typically with reference to its perceived materialistic values or conventional attitudes. "a rich, bored, bourgeois family" synonyms: middle-class, propertied; conventional, conservative, conformist; provincial, suburban, small-town; informal: white-bread "a bourgeois family"

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Well come all you Citizens, and listen to me
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I'm gonna tell you a story about Washington DC
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Lord it's a Bourgeois Town
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Yeah it's a Bourgeois Town
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I got the Bourgeois Blues
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I'm gonna spread the news all around.
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Well, me and Martha were standing upstairs
We heard the man say "Don't want no colored up there"
Lord, it's a bourgeois town (Washington DC)
It's a bourgeois town
I got the bourgeois blues
And I'm gonna spread the news all around
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Small town in Africa, we just got the News
ONE  TRUMP TWEET We got the Shithole Blues
We're a Shithole Town? (Washington DC)
THAT'S a Shithole town
We got the Shithole Blues
We're gonna spread the News all around..
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Well, white folks in Washington, they know how
To call a colored man a nigga just to see him bow
Lord, it's a bourgeois town (Washington DC)
It's a bourgeois town
I got the bourgeois blues
And I'm gonna spread the news all around
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Worked for three Presidents.. got TV News
ONE TRUMP TWEET n' I got the SlimeBall Blues
Well it's a Slimeball town (that's Washington DC)
It's a Slimeball town
I got the Slimeball Blues
I'm gonna write the News all around
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Well Land of the Brave and the Home Of The Free
Lord I don't wanna live with no Bourgeois..zee
Yeah, it's a bourgeois town (Washington in DC)
It's a bourgeois town
I got the bourgeois blues
And I'm gonna spread the news.. all.. around B7 E E7