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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 |
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My daddy died and left me wild, wild, wild |
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Mother died and left me reckless |
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Daddy died and left me wild, wild, wild |
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No, I'm not good lookin' |
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I'm some sweet woman's Angel child |
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You're a mighty mean woman, to do me this a way |
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You're 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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While I loved a woman, better than even I'd ever seen |
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I once loved a woman, better than even I'd ever seen |
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Treat me like I was a king and she was a doggone queen |
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Sister, tell your brother, brother tell your auntie now |
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Auntie tell your uncle, uncle tell my cousin now, 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 |
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You can 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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Mama, 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, grandpa and grandma had 'em too |
