Back Door Man

Howlin' Wolf · Smokestack Lightning: Complete Chess Masters [2011]

I am a back door man

I am a back door man

Well, the men don't know

But the little girls understand

When everybody's sound asleep

I'm somewhere making my midnight creep

Yes, in the morning, the rooster crow

Something tell me, I got to go

I am a back door man

I am a back door man

Well, the men don't know

But little girls understand

They take me to the doctor, shot full of holes

Nurse cried, please save the soul

Killed him for murder, first degree

Judge's wife cried, let the man go free

I am a back door man

I am a back door man

Well, the men don't know

But little girls understand

Stand out there, cop's wife cried

Don't take him down, rather be dead, six feets in the ground

When you come home you can eat pork and beans

I eats mo' chicken any man seen

I am a back door man

I am a back door man