[Verse 1]

Me and my wife

 went all over

 town

Everywhere we 

went the peopl

e turned us do

wn

[Chorus]
             
Lord, it's a b

ourgeois town
             
Oooh, it's a b

ourgeois town
             
I got the bour

              
geois blues, I

              
'm gonna sprea

              
d the news all

  
 around

[Verse 2]

Come all of yo

u people and l

isten to me

Don't try to b

uy no home in 

Washington, D.

C.

[Chorus]
             
Lord, it's a b

ourgeois town
             
Oooh, it's a b

ourgeois town
             
I got the bour

              
geois blues, I

              
'm gonna sprea

              
d the news all

  
 around

[Verse 3]

The home of th

e brave, the l

and of the fre

e

I don't want t

o be mistreate

d by no bourge

oisie

[Chorus]
             
Lord, it's a b

ourgeois town
             
Oooh, it's a b

ourgeois town
             
I got the bour

              
geois blues, I

              
'm gonna sprea

              
d the news all

  
 around