Now, layin’ around a little town
Smokin’ those nice cigars
I was waitin’ for [handout]
Just to catch an empty car
Just then a freight train come rollin’ by
My wait was all in vain
“Back off, back off, you dirty bum, and catch the next freight train”

Now if you wanna

I remember the time just before the war
Colored man used to hunt him out chips and straw
But now, bless God, old master dead,
Colored man plumb fool about feather bed

Eee wee, my dear Nancy, over the road I'm bound to go

I went up to town, go out to shriek and howl
Th

I’m goin’ to German’
I’ll be back some old day
I’m goin’ to German’
I’ll be back some old day
I’m goin’ to German’
I’ll be back some old day

Please tell me mama, what more can I do?
Tell me mama, what more can I do?
Done all I know ta, can’t get along with you</

Man, I left Lula, went to Jonestown
Man, I left Lula, went to Jonestown
That old Jonestown ground, boy, sure did make me frown.

Play it now, boy.

So I left Jonestown, too small a burg for me
I said, Jonestown too small a burg for me
Well, I left Jonestown, went back t

First time I was in Memphis, with Tenne with a ssee
I was walkin' on up Main Street
I meet an old friend of mine

He say, "Hello there, Joe"
I say, "Hello"
He say, "What that you got in that suitcase?"
I say, "It's a banjo"
He say, "Can you play the Madison Street Ra

Don’t you never let one woman rule your mind
Don’t you never let one woman rule your mind
‘Cause she keep you worried, troubled all the time

Don’t you think your Sarah was little and cute like mine?
Don’t you wish your Sarah was little and cute like mine?
She’s a mare--she’

There's a certain yellow joker live around this town
Just as lazy as lazy can be
While as long as they shake it, then he hangs around
"I love my hop," says he
Early one morning, smoker ran away
To roam the world, was said
Then I'll go back to bed 'fore I keep up my head

Last night I sought it out just to see if I could find my Sue
Just to find my Sue
I know that you have always been good and true
Been me good and true
I said, "Get up in the collar just as fast as you can
I'm gonna give you plenty oats and hay."
I said "Go on, mule, get u

Hey pretty mama, can I get a job with you?
Can I get a job with you?
I ain’t got no money, I can’t get no work to do

The woman I love, she weighs a thousand and fo’
She weighs a thousand and fo’
I don’t care if she weighed a thousand mo’

I wrote a letter, I mail it in

Now my head is hanging down
With these prison wall blues
The white mule made me act a pop-eyed clown
Now I've got no time to lose
When they bring you through that gate
You wish you hadn't 'a done it, but it's just too late
But you might as well laugh, good partner, when y

The judge he pleaded, clerk he wrote it, clerk he wrote it down, indeedy
The judge he pleaded, the clerk he wrote it down
If you miss jail [sinner/sentence] you must be Nashville bound

Some got six months, some got one solid, some got one solid year indeed, lord
Some got six mo

Walk right in, sit right down
And baby let your mind roll on
Hey, walk right in, stay a little while
But daddy, you've been stayin'? too long
Now, everybody's talkin' 'bout that ??? way of walkin'
Do you want to lose your mind?
Hey, walk right in, sit right down
And d

Well, I left Memphis went out on Macon Road
Well, I left Memphis went out on Macon Road
To Wolf River, sit out on the pier.

Y'all play that.

That Wolf River, Wolf River, sure deep and wide
That Wolf River, Wolf River, sure deep and wide
I'm gonna cross that river, go