House Rent Boogie Lyrics

The house rent boogie

I told the landlady
I done lost my job
And I didn′t have the rent
She said, "I don't care about you ain′t got the rent

'Cause all I want is my money
You been here three weeks
And you ain't paid a dime"

I said, "Give me one more week to get the money together"

She said, "I′m gonna give you one more week
You gonna have the rent out the door you gonna go"

The next week come, I didn′t have the rent
And I come in, I sneaked in the house late that night

That morning come, she knocked on my door
Said, "I want my money right now"
I said, "Lady, now all day long trying to find a job
And I ain't found nothing
And I′ve been here for quite a little while"

She said, "I want my money right now"

I said, "Wait 'til I go out in the street and come back"
Taking my old guitar, go out in the street on the corner

I sat down

I said, "Fellas, some give me a nickel
And some give me a dime
And some give me a quarter
And I′ll play right here for you all day long
'Cause I can′t go home
The old landlady got my clothes on the porch
I don't like that stuff"

I played and I played
When I got to the house
My rent I owed was thirty-six dollars and something
For the three weeks
And I only had ten dollars that morning

And I told her
I said, "I made ten dollars today
Give me three days and I'll get the rest of it"
She said, "Alrighty"
When the three days come
I was six dollars short
She throwed me in the street
In all of my clothes

I said, "Fellas, don′t ever get behind your rent
If you can help it, ′cause it's hard
Throw your clothes in the street
I mean in the street
In the bare open street
Got nowhere to go, it′s cold outside
You don't like that stuff"

Yes, yes

Yes, yes, yes

I picked up my clothes, I slowly walked away
It was cold, it was snowing
I was homeless, out of a job
I had no place to go
I goes to my sister-in-law′s house

She act all funny
I stood around 'til it got late that night
And she comes a-yawning, you know
She wouldn′t cook
To eat in the kitchen one at a time
And I sit there

After a while she said, "Well, we got to go to bed
And you know we crowded up here
We would let you stay all night
But we ain't got no place for you to stay"
Now that's the way your people do you
The house rent boogie

The house rent boogie
The house rent boogie
The house rent boogie
The house rent boogie

I′m out the door