Langston Hughes - Madam and the Phone Bill lyrics

You say I O.K.ed LONG DISTANCE? O.K.ed it when? My goodness, Central That was then! I'm mad and disgusted With that Negro now I don't pay no REVERSED CHARGES nohow You say, I will pay it-- Else you'll take out my phone? You better let My phone alone I didn't ask him To telephone me Roscoe knows darn well LONG DISTANCE Ain't free If I ever catch him Lawd, have pity! Calling me up From Kansas City Just to say he loves me! I knowed that was so Why didn't he tell me some'n I don't know? For instance, what can Them other girls do That Alberta K. Johnson Can't do--and more, too? What's that, Central? You say you don't care Nothing about my Private affair? Well, even less about your PHONE BILL, does I care! Un-humm-m! . . . Yes! You say I gave my O.K.? Well, that O.K. you may keep-- But I sure ain't gonna pay!