Ballin' The Jack - Alternate - Jelly Roll Morton

Michigan water tastes like sherry wine

I mean sherry wine

Oh, but Mississippi water taste like turpentine

Michigan water tastes like sherry wine

Believe to my soul that gal got a black cat bone

Yes, black cat bone

She’ll go away but she’s sure to come back home

Michigan water taste like sherry wine

She looks like a frog, hops like a kangaroo

If you ain’t got no hopper

Then she’ll be your hopper too

Michigan water taste like sherry wine

Michigan water taste like sherry wine

Gal in Alabama, one in Spain

Another in Mississippi, scared to call her name

Michigan water tastes like sherry wine

Michigan water tastes like sherry wine