High Fever Blues - Bukka White

Artist: Bukka White
Album: The Complete Sessions 1930-1940
Label: Travelin' Man
Year: 1976
Song Title: High Fever Blues
Duration: 02:53
Track #: 09


High Fever Blues

I'm taken down with the fever and it won't let me sleep,
I'm taken down with the fever and it won't let me sleep,
It was about three o'clock before he would let me be.

I wish somebody, would come and drive my fever away,
I wish somebody come and drive my fever away,
This fever I'm havin', sho' weaves in my way.

The fever I'm havin' sho' is hard on a man,
The fever I'm havin' sho' is hard on a man,
They don't allow my lover come and shake my hand.

I wonder what's the matter with the fever sho' is hard on a man,
I wanna know what's the matter, how come this fever hard on a man,
Doctor said: "Ain't the fever, that's your lover has another man".

Doctor get your fever gauge and put it under my tongue,
Doctor get your fever gauge and put it under my tongue,
Doctor says: "All you need, your lover in your arms".

I wants my lover, come and drive my fever away,
I wants my lover, come and drive my fever away,
Doctor says she'll do me more good in a day, than he would in all of his days.