Country Blues-Dockboggs

[ti:Country Blues] [ar:Dock Boggs/Preston Young] [al:American Folk Music] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Country Blues - Dockboggs [00:00.63]Come all you good time people [00:05.43]While I've got money to spend [00:08.55] [00:09.62]Tomorrow might be Monday [00:13.12]And I'll neither have a dollar nor a friend [00:16.37] [00:23.17]When I had plenty of money good people [00:27.23]My friends were all standing around [00:30.64]Just as soon as my pocket book was empty [00:34.50]Not a friend on earth to be found [00:37.66] [00:38.42]Last time I seen my little woman good people [00:42.15] [00:42.90]She had a wine glass in her hand [00:45.95] [00:46.60]She was drinking down her troubles [00:50.06]With a low-down sorry man [00:53.22] [00:59.62]Oh my Daddy taught me a-plenty good people [01:04.18]But my Mama she taught me more [01:07.10] [01:07.87]She said son if you don't quit your rowdy ways [01:11.40]You'll have trouble at my door [01:14.31] [01:14.95]I wrote my little woman a letter good people [01:18.81] [01:19.34]And I told her I was in Jail [01:22.25] [01:23.11]She sent me back an answer [01:26.79]Sayin' honey I'm a coming go your bail [01:29.66] [01:31.32]All around this old jailhouse is haunted good people [01:35.03] [01:35.57]Forty dollars won't pay my fine [01:38.69]Corn whiskey has surrounded my body poor boy [01:42.56]And pretty woman is troubling my mind [01:45.27] [01:46.96]Give me corn bread when I'm hungry good people [01:50.85]Corn whiskey when I'm dry [01:54.01]Pretty women a-standing around me [01:57.42] [01:58.03]Sweet heaven when I die [02:00.62] [02:07.49]If I don't listen to my Mama good people [02:11.61]I would not be here today [02:14.78]But I drinking and I shooting again [02:18.82]At home I cannot stay [02:21.67] [02:22.65]Go dig a hole in the meadow good people [02:27.34]Go did a hole in the ground [02:30.04] [02:30.68]Come around all you good people [02:34.31]And see this poor rounder go down [02:37.01] [02:38.01]When I am dead and buried [02:40.85] [02:42.13]My pale face turned to the sun [02:44.69] [02:45.45]You can come around and mourn little woman [02:48.59]And think the way you have done