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Wake up mama, turn your lamp down low |
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Wake up mama, turn your lamp down low |
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Have you got the nerve to drive Papa McTell from your door? |
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My mother died and left me reckless, my daddy died and left me wild, wild, wild |
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Mother died and left me reckless, Daddy died and left me wild, wild, wild |
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No, I'm not good lookin', but I'm some sweet woman's angel child |
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She's a mighty mean woman, to do me this a-way |
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She's a mighty mean woman, to do me this a-way |
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When I leave this town, pretty mama, I'm going away to stay |
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I once loved a woman, better than I ever seen |
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I once loved a woman, better than I ever seen |
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Treat me like I was a king and she was a dog-gone queen |
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Sister, tell your Brother, Brother tell your Auntie, Auntie, tell your Uncle, |
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Uncle tell my Cousin, Cousin tell my friend |
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Goin' up the country, Mama, don't you want to go? |
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May take me a fair brown, may take me one or two more |
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Big Eighty left Savannah, Lord, and did not stop |
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You ought to saw that colored fireman when he got that boiler hot. You can |
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Reach over in the corner, Mama, and hand me my travelin' shoes |
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You know by that, I've got them Statesboro blues |
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Sister got 'em, Auntie got 'em |
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Brother got 'em, friend got 'em, I got 'em |
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Woke up this morning, we had them Statesboro blues |
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I looked over in the corner, |
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Grandma and Grandpa had 'em too. |
