[00:00.45]you know, you know
[00:03.63]sometimes, sometimes people say to me,
[00:07.35]"rose,
[00:16.37]when's the first time you ever heard the blues?"
[00:19.43]and u know what i tell 'em? "the day i was born."
[00:24.78]
[00:28.46]you know why? you know why?
[00:33.34]'coz i was born a woman.
[00:36.38]
[00:36.62]ah! oh! we got some noisy females in the house tonight!
[00:44.97]
[00:46.78]i do like to hear that high-pitched sound, you know i do.
[00:52.81]oh, being a woman is so interesting don't you find it?
[00:56.78]what are we ladies, what are we?
[00:58.41]we are waitresses at the banquet of life!
[01:01.54]
[01:03.33]get into that kitchen and rattle them pots and pans...
[01:07.70]and you better look pretty god-damned good doing it
[01:09.59]too or else you gonna lose your good thang!
[01:13.48]
[01:16.36]oh! and why do we dot that, why do we do that?
[01:19.23]i tell you why we do that, we do that to find looove.
[01:22.89]oh, i love to be in love, don't you love to be in love?
[01:26.46]ain't it just great to be in love?
[01:28.61]oh, ain't it wonderful?
[01:31.02]isn't it wonderful to be in love?
[01:34.26]ain't it just grand laying there late at night in bed
[01:37.16]waiting for your man to show up?
[01:40.09]and when he finally does, round about four o'clock in the morning
[01:44.41]with whiskey on his breath
[01:46.50]and the smell of another woman on his person...
[01:50.07]
[01:50.79]oh, honey i can smell another woman at five hundred paces!
[01:54.44]that's a easy one to catch!
[01:59.04]
[02:01.97]so what do you do when he comes home with the smell of another woman on him?
[02:06.96]do you say, "oh, honey, let me open up my loving arms and my loving legs!
[02:11.61]dive right in, baby, the water's fine!"
[02:14.57]is that what you say, girls?!
[02:19.01]or do you say, "pack your bags!
[02:22.79]i'm putting on my little waitress cap and my fancy high heel shoes.
[02:25.92]i'm gonna go find me a real man, a good man, a true man,
[02:27.83]a man to love me for sure."
[02:31.03]you know i tell you something,
[02:32.34]i tell u something: i tohught...
[02:34.58]at one time i actually thought i found myself one.
[02:37.70]i did, i thought i found myself one.
[02:41.64]when he... when he...