Statesboro Blues

Wake up, mama, turn your lamp down low

Wake up, mama, turn your lamp down low

Have you got the nerve to drive Papa McTell from your door?

My mother died and left me reckless

My daddy died and left me wild, wild, wild

Mother died and left me reckless

Daddy died and left me wild, wild, wild

No, I'm not good lookin' but I'm some sweet woman's angel child

She's a mighty mean woman, do me this a-way

She's a mighty mean woman, do me this a-way

When I leave this town, pretty mama, I'm goin' away to stay

I once loved a woman, better than any I'd ever seen

I once loved a woman, better than any I'd ever seen

Treated me like I was a king and she was a doggone queen

Sister, tell your brother, brother tell your auntie

Now auntie, tell your uncle, uncle tell my Cousin

Now cousin, tell my friend

Goin' up the country, mama, don't you want to go?

May take me a fair brown, may take one or two more

Big Eighty left Savannah, Lord, and did not stop

You ought to saw that colored fireman when he got them boiler hot

You can reach over in the corner, mama

And hand me my travelin' shoes

You know by that, I've got them Statesboro blues

Mama, Sister got 'em, Auntie got 'em

Brother got 'em, friends got 'em, I got 'em

Woke up this morning, we had them Statesboro blues

I looked over in the corner, Grandma and Grandpa had 'em too