me and my wife went all over town everywhere we go the people would turn us down lord in the bourgeois town yee it s a bourgeois town i got the bourgeois blues gonna spread the news all around me and martha we were standing upstairs i heard a white man sayin i don t want no niggers up there lord he s a bourgeois man yee it s a bourgeois town i got the bourgeois blues gonna spread the news all around home of the brave land of the free i don t wanna be mistreated by no bourgeoisie lord in a bourgeois town yee the bourgeois town i got the bourgeois blues i m gonna spread the news all around me and my wife we went all over town everywhere we go the colored people would turn us down lord in a bourgeois town yee it s a bourgeois town i got the bourgeois blues i m gonna spread the news all around them white folks in washington they know how to call a colored man a nigga just to see him bow lord it s a bourgeois town ooh the bourgeois town i got the bourgeois blues i m gonna spread the news all around  tell all the colored folks to listen to me don t try to find no home in washington dc cause it s a bourgeois town yee it s a bourgeois town i got the bourgeois blues and i m still gonna spread the news1