Lonesome Walls-Ethel Waters

[ti:Lonesome Walls] [ar:Ethel Waters] [al:The Collection 1938-1946] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Lonesome Walls - Ethel Waters [00:11.97]When my man told me when they took me away [00:15.80] [00:17.33]That he would come to see me every Christmas Day [00:21.33] [00:22.51]Now Christmas is over and he's lockin' the gate [00:26.44] [00:27.76]Oh Mr Captain please wait ain't late [00:32.22] [00:33.66]No use waitin' watchin' hopin' for a man you know's forgettin' [00:39.89] [00:40.67]And ain't willin' to wait [00:42.31] [00:43.33]There's too many women for a man to wait [00:47.70] [00:49.15]Mornin' is you still dawnin' that clean young day [00:56.50] [00:59.05]River river is you still talkin' where my tear done lay [01:06.91] [01:09.27]Stars is you still shinin' when evenin' falls [01:17.12] [01:19.93]While my heart is burning [01:22.82] [01:25.37]Deep in these lonesome walls [01:28.11] [01:30.49]Lonesome walls lonesome walls [01:33.86] [01:35.54]Deep in these lonesome walls [01:37.85] [01:40.78]One of these mornings if I'm livin' that long [01:44.81] [01:45.52]I'm gonna rise up singin' such a goodbye song [01:49.68] [01:50.81]The walls'll fly open the sky and the see [01:54.81] [01:55.63]Oh Mr Jailer can it be I'm free [01:59.98] [02:01.34]Then I'll travel always singing to my home [02:06.29] [02:06.82]When tomorrow is a waitin' for me [02:10.19] [02:10.96]'Cause there's a tomorrow that's waitin' for me [02:15.64] [02:16.83]Lonesome walls lonesome walls [02:20.50] [02:26.09]At last I'm leavin' these here lonesome walls