Me and my wife run all over town And everywhere we go, the people would turn us down Lord, in a bourgeois town It's a bourgeois town I got the bourgeois blues Gonna spread the news all around Me and my wife we were standing upstairs I heard the white man say'n I don't want no niggers up there Lord, he a bourgeois man Uhm, bourgeois town I got the bourgeois blues Gonna spread the news all around Home of the brave, land of the free I don't wanna be mistreated by no bourgeoisie Lord, in a bourgeois town Uhm, the bourgeois town I got the bourgeois blues, I'm Gonna spread the news all around Instrumental Me and my wife went all over town And where we go, the colored people turn us down Lord, in a bourgeois town It's a bourgeois town I got the bourgeois blues, I'm Gonna spread the news all around Them white folks in Washington they know how To call a man a nigger just to see him bow Lord, it's a bourgeois town Uhm, the bourgeois town I got the bourgeois blues I'm Gonna spread the news all around I tell all the colored folks to listen to me Don't try to find you no home in Washington, DC 'Cause it's a bourgeois town Uhm, the bourgeois town I got the bourgeois blues and I'm Gonna spread the news