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I'm broke and hungry, ragged and dirty too |
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I said I?m broke and hungry, ragged and dirty too |
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Mama, if I clean up, can I go home with you? |
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I'm motherless, fatherless, sister and brotherless too |
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I said I?m motherless, fatherless, sister and brotherless too |
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Reason I've tried so hard to make this trip with you |
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You miss me woman, count the days I'm gone |
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You miss me woman, count the days I'm gone |
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I'm goin' away to build me a railroad of my own |
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I feel like jumpin' through a keyhole in your door |
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I said I feel like jumpin' through the keyhole in your door |
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If you jump this time, baby, you won't jump no more |
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I believe my good gal have found my black cat bone |
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I said I believe my baby have found my black cat bone |
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I can leave Sunday mornin', Monday mornin' I'm slippin' 'round home |
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I wanna show you women what careless love have done |
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I wanna show you women what careless love have done |
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Caused a man like me, steal away from home |
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Girl if you don't want me, why don't you let me know? |
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I said, if you don't want me, mama let me know |
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So I can leave at once and hunt me somewhere else to go |
