The song Kitchen Man is performed by Bessie Smith in the album named The Essential Bessie Smith in the year 1997 .
Madam Buff's was quite deluxe
Servants by the score
Footmen at each door
Butlers and maids galore
But one day Sam, her kitchen man
Gave in his notice, he's through
She cried, "Oh Sam, don't go
It'll grieve me if you do"
I love his cabbage gravy, his hash
Crazy 'bout his succotash
I can't do without my kitchen man
Wild about his turnip top
Like the way he warms my chop
I can't do without my kitchen man
Anybody else can leave
And I would only laugh
But he means too much to me
And you ain't heard the half
Oh, his jelly roll is so nice and hot
Never fails to touch the spot
I can't do without my kitchen man
His frankfurters are oh so sweet
How I like his sausage meat
I can't do without my kitchen man
Oh, how that boy can open clam
No one else is can touch my ham
I can't do without my kitchen man
When I eat his doughnuts
All I leave is the hole
Any time he wants to
Why, he can use my sugar bowl
Oh, his baloney's really worth a try
Never fails to satisfy
I can't do without my kitchen man
Bessie Smith - The Essential Bessie Smith
- Aggravatin' Papa
- Baby Won't You Please Come Home
- Jail-House Blues
- Graveyard Dream Blues
- Ticket Agent, Ease Your Window Down
- Boweavil Blues
- Weeping Willow Blues
- Dying Gambler's Blues
- Cake Walkin' Babies From Home
- Careless Love Blues
- I Ain't Goin' To Play Second Fiddle
- At The Christmas Ball
- Jazzbo Brown From Memphis Town
- Backwater Blues
- After You've Gone
- Alexander's Ragtime Band
- There'll Be A Hot Time In The Old Town Tonight
- Trombone Cholly
- Send Me To The 'Lectric Chair
- A Good Man Is Hard To Find
- Dyin' By The Hour
- Me And My Gin
- Kitchen Man
- Nobody Knows When You're Down And Out
- On Revival Day (A Rythmic Spiritual)
- Moan, You Moaners
- Shipwreck Blues
- Need A Little Sugar In My Bowl
- Gimmie A Pigfoot And A Bottle Of Beer
- Take Me For A Buggy Ride
- Down In The Dumps