Baby please don't go,
Baby please don't go,
Baby please don't go,
Down to New Orleans
You know I love you so,
Baby please don't go.

Baby your mind done gone,
Well your mind done gone,
Well your mind done gone,
Left the county farm,
You had the

Yes I'm a gambling man : still gambling yet
Don't never get too rough boy : *one kill* won't lay them dead

Done got funny baby : funny as it can be
If you raise any kids : they all got to look like me

Take your sweet potato : *raise them at your home*
If you want a good w

Brother James went out riding : riding in that twenty‑nine Ford
That poor man was drinking bad whiskey : ooo well boys he sure going to lose his soul

Lord I went out in Greenville : looked down in brother James' face
I says sleep on brother James : I'll meet you Resurrection Day

Yes I'm a crawling king snake : baby I'm going to ??? all around your door
You had the nerve to tell me : ooo well well she didn't want me no more

You couldn't see me baby : passing by
Mama be your crawling king snake : till the day I die

I'm going to be your crawling king sn

Good morning little school girl
Can I go home with you
Tell your mama and your daddy
That I'm a little school boy too
Baby, I love ya', I just can't help myself

Your so good looking pretty baby
I don't need nobody else
Good morning little school girl
Can I go ho

Well I'm going to get up in the morning : get to Highway Forty‑Nine
Well *about* my sweet woman : ooo well well she don't pay poor Joey no mind

Well if you ever had the blues : get to Highway Forty‑Nine
Well *about* sweet woman : ooo well boys she trying to throw poor Joey down

Well I'll get up in the morning : catch the Highway Forty‑Nine
Well well I'm going to look for little Malvina : ooo man don't say she can't be found

I got a long tall woman : live on Highway Forty‑Nine
Well well I get up in the morning : ooo Lord boys she's down on my mind

Ma

Well I beg you baby : baby so long
Know you're going to miss me : when I'm dead and gone

Well I know she going to miss me : well when I'm dead and gone
I know you going to miss me baby : *oh poor boy will be*

When you hear me singing : mama this old lonesome song
Know you

I said goodbye baby : oh yes i got to go
I don't want to be wearing mustache : ooo well mistreated for mr so‑and‑so

I say the hard luck and trouble : every place i go
I believe somebody put bad luck on me : ooo well i believe now it's time to go

I had money baby : i even had

Good morning judge : he done lowered the fine
Tell the man : about this stuff of mine

Baby : want to keep your daddy from crying
Save me a little more : of that stuff of mine

Now baby : don't be so fast
If you can't shimmy : shake your yas yas yas

I get drunk : walk

Well look here mama : let your daddy see
You got something baby : worrying me

Well mama don't allow : no laying out all night long
Well well you know I'm a mind to : because my woman done done me wrong

Well big‑leg woman : better keep your dresses down
You got me standing

Meet me around the corner baby : bring my boots and shoes
My best woman done quit me : and I ain't got no time to lose

Now she low and she squatty : she right down on the ground
Every time she wobbles : she make my love came down

Lord the woman I'm loving : sleeping in her *r

I got me a pony Lord : and she already trained
When I get in my bed mama : baby tighten up on your reins

Well I got something to tell you : mama when I get a chance
Well I don't want to marry : baby just want to be your man

I got a brownskin woman : she don't pay me no mind

Peach orchard mama : you swore wasn't nobody going to use your peaches but me
Well you want Joe Williams to work in your orchard : well and I'll keep your orchard clean

You done got me to the place : I hate to see that evening sun go down
Well when I get up in the morning : ooo wel

Well I'm a rooting ground hog : and I roots both nights and days
I want some good‑looking mama to come here now : please drive these blues away

I went home last night babe : just about the break of day
I did grab the pillow : where my baby used to lay

I'm a rooting ground hog

Don't care where you go : how long you stay
Lord it's good‑time females : bring you back some day

Ain't but the one thing Sonny Boy : get Joey in the blues
I got on : my last pair of shoes

Yes I keep on betting : but the dice won't pass
You going to leave Chicago running

When I was a little boy baby : about sixteen inches high
I had a mean stepfather : Lord he didn't want me to eat a bite

I've got a mean stepfather : and I know you have one too
And my mother dead and gone : nothing in this world that he will do

Well my mother she gone : and I

And I feel so lonesome, you hear me when I moan
When I feel so lonesome, you hear me when I moan
Who been drivin' my Terraplane1, for you since I been gone.

I'd said I flash your lights, mama, you horn won't even blow
(spoken: Somebody's been runnin' my batteries down on this m

Yeah I got up this morning : I was feeling awful bad
I was thinking about the good time mama : mmm Lord me and my baby once have had

Babe I woke up this morning : I looked down the road
I think I heard my wild cow mama : when she begin to low

If you see my wild cow buddy : pl