I told you once: This makes twice
That's the last time: Don't you boil them rice

You can brown your gravy: Fry your steak
Sweet mama: Don't make no mistake

Just sure as the winter: Follows the fall
There ain't no one woman: Got it all

You can meet a woman: That you

I ain't talking to one: I ain't talking to two
I'm talking to the captain: And the whole doggone crew

Yes she smokes the cigarettes: Throws ashes in the tray
She's a good woman: She likes to have her way

I'm going away: Won't be long
You look for me: I'll be gone

Did you ever have a bad luck woman on your trail?
Did you ever have a bad luck woman on your trail?
Always keeps you broke, always keeps you in jail.

I used to be happy, [as good Lord], all the time,
I used to be happy, [as good Lord], all the time,
but soon as I got this w

Everybody in town: Got a butter and egg man but me
Tell me please: Lord because I can't see

Come here mama: Sit down on your papa's knee
I'm just a butter and egg man: You can easy get along
With me

Why don't you take me pretty mama: Make something out of
Poor me

I get up early in the morning : sweet mama and I comb and
curry my horse
Because I don't want nobody : not to *see my pause*

Then I goed up to the coal pile : get me a friend to buy
some coal
Then I get on my wagon : *then I'm a coal‑traveling snow*

*I ought to tell h

You can always tell: When your good gal don't want to
Be seen
Because your meals ain't ready: The house is never
Clean

Just like hunting for a needle: Buried in a bed of
Sand
That is to find a woman: Haven't got no man

Three barrels of whiskey: Mama four barrels o

Now I got a gal: Works in the yard
She brings me meat: She brings me lard

Only thing: That keep me barred
People she works for: Don't allow me in the yard

Going to tell you one thing: It's a natural fact
Want you to come on home: And drop that sack

Now I got a gal:

Tell me tell me: Please has anybody seen my brown
She used to love me: Till old fatmouth blew in town

She's a long tall woman: With coal‑black curly hair
With one gold tooth: Then you'll know her anywhere

She used to be mine: But the fatmouth has got her now
That's a dirt

I ain't good‑looking: And I don't dress cute
But I just want to break: Some good man's opportune

I ain't no race horse: I ain't built for speed
But I got everything: That a race horse papa needs

You may fall from the mountain: Down in the deep blue
Sea
You ain't done

Stood on the corner: Feet got soaking wet

I was hollering and crying to every brown: To hell I'm
At
I'm alabama bound: I'm alabama bound

Then if you want me to love you babe: You got to leave
This town
When the rooster crowed: The hen looked around

Said if you w

Ain't nothing in the jungle: That's any better than me
I'm the baddest man: Ever came from tennessee

I slept with a panther: Until just about the break of
Day
I grabbed the wildcat in the collar: And asked the tiger
What he had to say

I wear a scorpion for my watch fo

Please Baby Can't You Loan Me Your Heart
I'll Pay You Back
When Times Get Hard

Now You Know Baby, You Know It's True
I Don't Love No One But You
I'm Going To Tell You
Just What To Do

Now If You Loan Me Your Heart
Now Baby Can't You Loan Me Your Heart
I'll

Got a knock‑kneed mama : down in Tennessee
She's short and squatty : she's all right with me

Now knock‑kneed mama : what you going to cook tonight
Whatever you cook : just cook it right

You got a face like a washboard : and a mouth like a tub
Teach my mama : that washboar

I was walking down morgan: Stopped on maxwell street
I asked the desk sergeant police force: My gal ain't
Off of the street

I couldn't talk to the desk sergeant: Tell him *when
And* where it took place
Because I knew my mama: Got arrested on maxwell street

Lord I'm ta

I love my baby: And my baby do love me

Get away from my window: Honey babe get away from my
Door

Honey babe honey babe: Why don't you tell me what you're
Going to do

I ain't crazy about no yellow: I ain't no fool about no
Brown

Because you can't tell the diffe

Says it ain't but the one thing: That grieve my mind
All these women: And none is mine

Says a little fish big fish: Swimming in the water
Come on back here man: And give me my quarter

It's like hunting for a needle: In a bed of sand
Trying to find a woman: Haven't got no

It was early one morning: Just about the break of day
Says I thought I heard: My sweet baby say

You can read a newspaper: You can't read a person's mind
But when you think she's loving you: Dropping you all
The time

Now baby you can tell me: Just what are you to do
No

I know a man: He's on our street
He don't do nothing: But eat and sleep

Now he's a man: That I would love to meet
He's always dressed up: And out in the street

Now he don't drink whiskey: Nothing sweet
When it comes to pretty women: He sure loves to meet

I'm hot as

Now I got a lady: By the name of sue
She'd like to know: Just what to do

Now when you what it: I agree
Don't forget: To ask for me

Now she's a woman: Hard to beat
All you got to do is dance: And stay on your feet

Now you ain't good‑looking: You don't dress cute

Take me back baby: You know I don't know my mind
For when I'm mistreating you: I'm loving you all the
Time

I walked the streets all day: Hung my head and cried
I laid awake all night: Trying to make myself satisfied

There's one thing honey: I want you to understand
Th