Come along people, listen to me Don't try to find no home in Washington DC Lord it's a bourgeois town, it's a bourgeois town I got the bourgeois blues I'm gonna spread the news all around Me and Martha were standing downstairs Bossman said "Don't want no colored people here" Lord it's a bourgeois town ... Home of the brave, land of the free I don't want to be mistreated by no bourgeoisie Lord it's a bourgeois town ... White folks in Washington they do know how Throw a man a nickel just to see him bow Lord it's a bourgeois town ... Come along people, listen to me Don't try to find no home in Washington DC Lord it's a bourgeois town ...