On with the Show! (1929)

Ethel Waters: Ethel

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• Ethel : [singing]  Am I blue? Am I blue? Aint these tears in these eyes tellin' you, Am I blue? You'd be too, If each plan with your man done fell through. Cause there was a time I was his only one, But now I'm the sad and lonely one, Lawdy, Was I gay? Until today, Now he's gone, And we're through, Am I blue?

• Ethel : [singing]  Nobody's foolin' Birmingham Bertha, She's had schoolin' Birmingham Bertha, Eye for an eye, tooth for a tooth's my plan, Just treat me halfway fair and I'm on the level, Give air and i'm just a she-devil, He's on my mind, I intend to find that man, Bu't I'll admit I'm just the worst simple Simon that you know, Gave him my diamonds and all my dough, But you can bet it, he'll regret it, He's gonna get it and so, Don't expect no two dollars worth of sympathy, From Birmingham Bertha, Like the police I never release my man...