empty bed blues

Singer:bette midler

woke up this mornin'

with an awful achin' head. woke up this mornin'

with an awful achin' head. my new man left me. i'm just a bloom in an empty bed. now

when my bed gets empty

i get to feelin' kind of mean and blue. when my bed gets empty

get to feelin' awful mean and blue. the springs are gettin' rusty

sleepin' single like i do. i bought me a coffee grinder

the best one i could find. you know that i bought me a brand new coffee grinder

the best one i could find

so he could grind my coffee. babe

i got a brand new grind. you gotta try

girl

you gotta try. he was a deep sea diver

with a stroke that could not go wrong. deep

deep sea

deep sea diver

with a stroke that just could not go wrong. he could touch the bottom

and his wind held out so long. oh

he boiled my cabbage

and he made it awful hot

tsch

tsch

tsch

tsch

tsch

tsch

tsch

mmmm. he boiled it

i got to tell you

that he made it

made it awful hot. but when he slipped the bacon in

he overflowed the pot!

yeah

yeah

yeah

yeah

yeah

yeah

yeah. what a sweet man he was. i went and told my girlfriend lou. remember that old rag of a girl named lou?

real sweet man. i went and told my girlfriend lou. that way that girl is

baby

she must have had a piece of it

too. and now when you get good lovin'

don't you

don't you spread the news. don't you spread the news. when you get it and it's good

good

good

you really ought not to

you ought not to spread the news. because those gals will doublecross you and leave you

those gals will doublecross you

and they do

those gals will doublecross you

and leave you

leave you

leave you

leave you with the empty bed blues!

zah!