| Ain’t it lonesome, ain’t it lonesome, sitting in your home alone | 
| Ain’t it lonesome, ain’t it lonesome, sitting in your home alone | 
| Yes, you know, when your wife done quit your black self and the girl you love | 
| is gone | 
| Yeah, you know she kind of like Katie Mae | 
| I give her everything in the world she needs | 
| That’s why she don’t do nothing, man, but lay up in the bed and read | 
| And you know, she’s kind of like Katie Mae | 
| Boy, I give that woman everything in the world she needs | 
| Yes, that’s why, you know, she don’t do nothing, man, lay up in the bed and read | 
| Yes, you know I bought her a radio, I even bought her a’electric fan | 
| She said, «Sam. | 
| I’m gon' lay here and read and God knows I won’t have no other | 
| man» | 
| That made me feel so good till I don’t know what to do | 
| Yes, darling, every dollar poor Sam makes, you know, he got to bring it back | 
| home to you | 
| (Got to play it out right here) | 
| Still, I say, can’t a woman act funny, I’m talking about when she got another | 
| man? | 
| You know she won’t look straight at you, boy, she always raising sand | 
| Can’t a woman act funny, boy, when she got another man | 
| Yes, you know she won’t look straight at you, then she’s always raising sand |