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Freight Train
03:10
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freight train freight train where you going so fast x2
why you gotta leave me here living in the past oh ooo freight train
when i die lord bury me deep way down on old chestnut street
so i can hear the old number nine when she goes rolling by
when I'm dead and in my grave no more good times will i crave
place them stones at my head and feet and tell them all that I've gone to sleep
freight train freight train where you going so fast x2
please don't tell which train I'm on so they won't know which route I've gone
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Tip Out Tonight
02:53
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me I'm feeling mighty lonesome me I'm feeling mighty lonesome
my girl quit me and i don't know what to do
she even told me from the start
if i go it'd break her heart
every time i think about it makes me feel so blue
this morning i received a note
and this is what the note had wrote
it said..
go on boy sing those blues to me
I'm as sweet as any girl can be
she even told me to my face that any old rounder sure could take my place
I'm getting tired of your low down ways
I'm going back to my baby day
go on honey you can't bluff when i tip out tonight I'm going to strut my stuff i mean I'm going to strut my stuff
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whats that tastes like gravy
mama says i know you want to know
whats that tastes like gravy
worring your soul
well he cooked that chicken
and he cooked him down low
then he cooked that chicken in a sweet jelly roll
uncle tom way down in alabam way down in the dixie land
well he got a possum and he named him joe
then he put him in him barn
he killed that possum
then he cooked him down low
the grease started running from joe joe joe
whats that tastes like gravy
mama says i know you want to know
well i was born in alabam way down in the dixie land
oh the people come from miles around just to hear that chucking corn
she sounds so low
she sounds so slow
she sounds just like she couldn't blow
whats that taste like gravy
mama says i know you want to know
skeeditli beep bopp bum now you don't know the road
it was late last night when the times were rough
i was laying in the court yard strutting my stuff
whats that taste like gravy
mama says i know you want to know
i mean
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chorus:
Got a letter from my darling she says hurry home
got a letter from my darling how long have you been gone
she's little and neat and so sweet
she's got great big legs going down to her feet
she's got great big eyes and rosy cheeks
boy you know she must be a peach
I'm coming home mama if i have to ride the rod
I'm coming home mama if i have to catch the cannon ball
im gonna get up in the morning and do my time
if she starts to walking i will walk right behind
i know you as sweet as a candy doll
aint got another man in your stall
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I walked around the corner to the peanut stand
but my gal got stuck on the peanut man
my father was a jockey taught me to ride behind
you know by that I've got a job anytime
you quit me pretty mama cause you couldn't be my boss
but a rolling stone it don't gather no moss
a nickels worth of meat and a dimes worth of lard
i eat every day in your front yard
chorus:
you may leave but this will bring you back,
I'm satisfied satisfied I got a little girl right by my side
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chorus:
The grass is greener in the mountains
The sky is a little bit bluer
The air is cleaner in the mountains
And the mountain gal’s heart is truer
When you sympathize with your fellow man
And your heart fills with pity
Save some sympathy for the fools like me
The country boys in the city
I punched the clock and worked like a dog
Trying to make a dollar
But I wish I was back in my run down shack
making love in some dark hollow
When I get home I know Mama will cry
Old Blue’s a gonna come rushing
Pa’ll scratch his chin, little brother will grin
And Telly will stand there a blushin’
She cried and she begged me not to go
She said I’d soon forget her
But I’ve seen the world and a lot of pretty
Girls and I love her more than ever
Now all I can save is a dollar a week
But as soon as I get the money
If the good Lord wills, I’ll be back in those hills
With my kinfolk and my honey
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Papas On the Housetop
02:18
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Mama told papa to be quiet as a mouse
so papa climbed up on top of the house
made a lotta ruckus made a lotta noise
stir it up and dish it up to the rest of the boys
oh the blues they come, the blues they go,
Nobody knows where the blues come from.
The blues they come, the blues they go,
And everybody's happy when the old blues go.
Papa saw a chicken out in the yard
picked up a rock and he hit him hard
hit him hard and killed him dead
now the chickens in the grave and the gravies on the bread
chorus:
Baby's in the cradle,Brother's one to town,
Sister's in the parlor crying on the ground?!
Mama's in the kitchen dancin' all around,
Papa's on the housetop won't come down
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Now listen mama you don't have to worry don't have to speak got everything that a good gal could need, your man steps in when i go out, you aint got a darn thing to worry about, your songs all sung and your prayers are all prayed , groceries in your kitchen and your rents all paid, five dollar stockings and ten dollar shoes , everything to gain and not a darn thing to lose, its a mystery to me, your papa can't see mama how you can have the blues this evening, mama how you can have the blues
I'm living easy thats all true , i got all respect thats due to you, i got a little money you don't forget , but there is something that is lacking yet, now theres still something I'm raving about , can't get in touch with it until i go out, heres your stockings and heres your shoes just got to have you near by when i loose, ill tell you again try to reexplain that is why i have the blues, all this time now that is why i have the blues
don't have to hurry you don't have to speak got everything that a good gal could need, you got a good break believe it or not, most any gal appreciate the stuff that you got,your songs all sung and your prayers are all prayed , groceries in your kitchen and your rents all paid, got plenty of liquor and plenty of gin, crazy with the women and a raving about the men, now its a mystery to me your papa can not see mama how you can have the blues all this time now mama how you can have the blues
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Special Rider
03:16
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Aint got no special rider here x2
well i aint got nobody to love or feel my care
woke up look at the special rising sun x2
and i pray to the lord my special rider would come
take the southern to ease your troubling mind x2
if you see my rider tell him I'm trouble all the time
aint got no special rider here x2
well i aint got nobody to love or feel my care
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10. |
Down On Me
04:00
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chorus:
Down on me
down on me
seems like everybody in the whole wide world is down on me
if i could i surely would
stand on the rock like Moses stood
I aint been to heaven but I've been told
the streets are silver and the gates are gold
since my ma and pa is dead
i aint got nowhere to lay my head
better get rid of your alcohol
or else you'll be sitting in the house of the law
lord I'm a rebel so I've been told
i kill my body and i harm my soul
went to the cemetery the other day
looked in the grave and saw my mother
well lord I'm a true vine
lord I'm a true vine
lord I'm a true vine
my fathers is a good good man
don't go running through your neighbors field
he tells us don't curse don't lie or steal
aint been to heaven but I've been told
the streets are silver and the gates they are gold
going to heaven at the end of our days
follow what the father says in every way
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11. |
Georgia Crawl
04:11
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Mama mama look at sis she's standing in the corner shaking like this
chorus:
doing the Georgia crawl that ol Georgia
you don't need a black tie to do the Georgia crawl
i can shake it east and i can shake it west but way down south i can shake it the best
come her my gal come here right now i want to learn to crawl but i don't know how
so you roll your shoulders shake your thighs boy get down on your knees and you bat them eyes
you can call the pastor you can call the police but the moment they get here they'll be down on their knees
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