That's No Way To Get Along

DESCRIPTION: Singer complains to his mother that "these low-down women ... treated your poor son wrong" till he "wished he's dead and gone." He wants "some train to come along and take me away" ... "and that's no way for me to get along"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1929 (StuffDreams2)
KEYWORDS: hardheartedness love sex nonballad lover mother
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Robert Wilkins, "That's No Way To Get Along" (on StuffDreams2)
NOTES [89 words]: According to W. K. McNeil, editor, Encyclopedia of American Gospel Music, Routledge, 2005, pp. 423-424, Robert Wilkins was born in 1896 in Hernandez, Mississippi, about twenty miles south of Memphis. After serving in World War I, he went to Memphis as a musician, where he performed with Furry Lewis and Memphis Minnie among others. This song was however recorded solo. After playing a house party which turned violent in 1938, he largely abandoned secular music and became a Pentecostal elder and gospel singer. He died in 1987. - RBW
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