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

Mike's hell from your

door?

My mother daddy loved me reckless,

my daddy daddy loved me

wild, wild, wild.

Mother daddy loved me reckless,

daddy daddy loved me wild,

wild, wild.

No, I'm not good-looking,

but I'm some sweet woman's angel

child.

She's a mighty mean woman to do me this

way.

She's a mighty mean woman to do me this

way.

When I leave this time, pretty mama,

I'm gonna wait to stay.

Once loved a woman better than anyone I'd

ever seen.

I once loved a woman better than anyone

I'd ever seen.

Treated me like I'm the king and she

was the doggone queen.

Sister, tell your brother, brother,

tell your auntie.

Now, auntie, tell your uncle, uncle,

tell my cousin. Now, cousin,

tell my friend.

Going up the country, mama,

don't you wanna go?

May take me a fair ground, may take one

or two more.

Big Eight, he left Savannah, blowing

and did not stop.

You oughta saw that colored fireman

when he got them boiler hot.

You can reach over in the corner, mama,

and hand me my traveling

shoes.

You know by that I've got them St.

Louis blues.

Mama and sister got 'em, auntie got 'em,

brother got 'em, friend got 'em,

I got 'em.

Woke up this morning, we had them St.

Louis blues.

I looked over in the corner, grandma

and grandpa had 'em too.