Dead Cat On The Line - Diamanda Galas

You Chicago women run hand in hand

You run around with one another’s man

There’s a dead cat on the line

There’s a dead cat on the line

I ain’t lyin', you’re the cheatin' kind

There’s a dead cat on the line

You come home at night talkin' out your head

You have to take a bath before you go to bed

There’s a dead cat on the line

There’s a dead cat on the line

I ain’t lyin', you’re the cheatin' kind

There’s a dead cat on the line

You’re in such a sniffer gettin' mighty strung

When you shake hands you got to hold it so long

There’s a dead cat on the line

There’s a dead cat on the line

I ain’t lyin', you’re the cheatin' kind

There’s a dead cat on the line

She as standin' in church with her own man

I saw you when you tickled her in her hand

There’s a dead cat on the line

There’s a dead cat on the line

I ain’t lyin', you’re the cheatin' kind

There’s a dead cat on the line

(Play it now!)

You’re brownskin, your husband ain’t fair

Your children all yellin' got curly hair

There’s a dead cat on the line

There’s a dead cat on the line

I ain’t lyin', you’re the cheatin' kind

There’s a dead cat on the line

Early this mornin' 'bout half past four

I seen Bill Johnson comin' out your door

There’s a dead cat on the line

There’s a dead cat on the line

I ain’t lyin', you’re the cheatin' kind

There’s a dead cat on the line

There’s one thing I can’t understand

You broke up your home and quit your reg’lar man

There’s a dead cat on the line

There’s a dead cat on the line

I ain’t lyin', you’re the cheatin' kind

There’s a dead cat on the line

This song is by Tampa Red and appears on the

compilation album Tampa Red Vol.5 1931−1934 (1991).