"Yaller" lyrics - CAB CALLOWAY
Dark folk, white folk, but never a hand,
They say to this man,
"You're yaller, you're yaller, you're yaller, you're just a yaller."
Black folk, white folk, I'm learning a lot,
You know what I am, I know what I'm not,
Ain't even black, I ain't even white,
I ain't like the day and I ain't like the night.
Feeling mean, so inbetween, I'm just a high yaller.
Ain't even bad, I ain't even good,
I don't understand and I ain't understood,
Not a friend sticks to the end when you're yaller.
Take me to a church and make me pray,
Make me sing a psalm there;
You better leave my soul in a crude cafe,
I don't even belong there.
Oh Lord, can't you make a sinner a saint,
Why did you start me but run out of paint,
Pass me by, a no-'count yellow man.
Lord only knows, I'm trying to rest,
I want to be down with a load on my chest.
Make my bed; wish I were dead,
A yaller man.
Cab Calloway & The Missourians 1929-30 (1930)
- Market Street Stomp
- Ozark Mountain Blues
- You'll Cry For Me, But I'll Be Gone
- Missouri Moan
- Ozark Mountain Blues (Take 2)
- You'll Cry For Me, But I'll Be Gone (Take 2)
- I've Got Someone
- '400' Hop
- Vine Street Drag
- Scotty Blues
- Two Hundred Squabble
- Swingin' Dem Cats
- Stoppin' The Traffic
- Prohibition Blues
- Gotta Darn Good Reason Now (For Bein' Good)
- St. Louis Blues
- Sweet Jenny Lee
- Happy Feet
- Yaller
- The Viper's Drag
- Is That Religion
- Some Of These Days
- Nobody's Sweetheart
- St. James Infirmary