Vamping Brown (Take 2) - 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

And when the other girls swarm here

Here’s what they did say:

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 was born in Virginia, reared in Tennessee

I’m like a

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

But I’m vamping just the same

Lord, 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

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

But I’m vamping just the same

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

But I’m vamping just the same

Lord, 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

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

But I’m vamping just the same