Vamping Brown (Take 4) - Alberta Hunter, Fletcher Henderson

Now Cora Lee from Tennessee

Had diamonds by the score

Big fur coat and picture hat

Still she’d play you for more

And all the boys were simply wild

About this vamping babe

Now when the other girls swarm here

Here’s what Cora said:

Girls, I’m a plain little brown from a one-horse town

But I’m vamping just the same

I’m plain in my style with my big, broad smile

«Cheerful Memphis,» my nickname

I went up on the mountain, looked down in the sea

The fishes in the water tried to flirt with me

Still I’m a plain little brown from a one-horse town

But I’m vamping just the sam

Lord, I’m a plain little brown from a one-horse town

But I’m vamping just th same

I’m plain in my style with my big, broad smile

«Cheerful Memphis,» my nickname

My name’s Alberta, home’s in a lion’s den

And my favorite occupation is stealing monkey-women's men

Still I’m a plain little brown from a one-horse town

But I’m vamping just the same

You better stop your good man from smiling in my face

Or you’ll wake up some morning and find me in your place

Still I’m a plain little brown from a one-horse town

But I’m vamping just the same