Country Blues-Dock Boggs/Preston Young

[ti:Country Blues] [ar:Dock Boggs/Preston Young] [al:American Folk Music] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Country Blues - Dock Boggs/Preston Young [00:00.68]Come all you good time people [00:05.48]While I've got money to spend [00:08.60] [00:09.67]Tomorrow might be Monday [00:13.16]And I'll neither have a dollar nor a friend [00:16.41] [00:23.22]When I had plenty of money good people [00:27.27]My friends were all standing around [00:30.68]Just as soon as my pocket book was empty [00:34.54]Not a friend on earth to be found [00:37.71] [00:38.47]Last time I seen my little woman good people [00:42.20] [00:42.95]She had a wine glass in her hand [00:46.00] [00:46.65]She was drinking down her troubles [00:50.11]With a low-down sorry man [00:53.27] [00:59.66]Oh my Daddy taught me a-plenty good people [01:04.23]But my Mama she taught me more [01:07.15] [01:07.92]She said son if you don't quit your rowdy ways [01:11.44]You'll have trouble at my door [01:14.35] [01:14.99]I wrote my little woman a letter good people [01:18.86] [01:19.39]And I told her I was in Jail [01:22.30] [01:23.16]She sent me back an answer [01:26.83]Sayin' honey I'm a coming go your bail [01:29.70] [01:31.36]All around this old jailhouse is haunted good people [01:35.08] [01:35.62]Forty dollars won't pay my fine [01:38.74]Corn whiskey has surrounded my body poor boy [01:42.61]And pretty woman is troubling my mind [01:45.32] [01:47.01]Give me corn bread when I'm hungry good people [01:50.90]Corn whiskey when I'm dry [01:54.05]Pretty women a-standing around me [01:57.46] [01:58.07]Sweet heaven when I die [02:00.66] [02:07.53]If I don't listen to my Mama good people [02:11.65]I would not be here today [02:14.83]But I drinking and I shooting again [02:18.87]At home I cannot stay [02:21.72] [02:22.70]Go dig a hole in the meadow good people [02:27.39]Go did a hole in the ground [02:30.09] [02:30.73]Come around all you good people [02:34.36]And see this poor rounder go down [02:37.06] [02:38.06]When I am dead and buried [02:40.90] [02:42.18]My pale face turned to the sun [02:44.74] [02:45.50]You can come around and mourn little woman [02:48.64]And think the way you have done