Midnight Blues - Original - Ethel Waters

Daddy, Daddy, please come back to me!

Daddy, Daddy, please come back to me!

Your mama’s lonesome as she can be

You left at midnight

Clock was striking twelve

Papa, you left me at midnight

When the clock was striking twelve

To face this cruel world all by myself

Woke up at midnight, sad and blue

Missed my daddy from my side

Left alone to bemoan my fate

That’s why I’m sighin', crying

I just can’t refuse

I feel so troubled, heart-broken, too

Woe and misery I can’t hide

At twelve o' clock, I unlock my hate

I get the meanest kind of

Lonesome midnight blues

I feel so troubled, heart-broken, too

Woe and misery I can’t hide

At twelve o' clock, I unlock my hate

I get the meanest kind of

Lonesome midnight blues

Those lonesome midnight blues