I have spelled a few words phonetically, as Macon pronounces them.

HILL BILLIE BLUES
As recorded by Uncle Dave Macon

1. I am a Billie and I live in the hills.
I can whistle an' sing like a whooperwill.
Come across the mountain right down in the holler
To see my little doney just as purty's she can waller.

CHORUS: Oh, tell me how long must I wait?
Lord, I get you now or, Lord, I hesitate.

2. Hello central; what's the matter with the line?
I can't talk to that girl of mine.
Storm last night blew all the phones down.
I can't talk to my Saro Brown.

3. As long as bacon is thirty cents a pound,
I'm goin' to eat a rabbit if I have to run 'im down.
Ice cream cone, bevo(?) steak,
You want to win a woman, get a daddy like a ape(?).

4. I been in the city 'n' I been in the town.
I been in the mountain with the blues rollin' down.
Jumped in the river an' I thought I would drown.
I spied a red-headed woman and I couldn't go down.

5. Whiskey, whiskey, I'm gonna let you be.
The bone-dry law made a Christian out o' me.
Goin' to Oklyhoma to marry me a squaw,
And have a big chief for a daddy-in-law.

6. Got water in the ocean; there's water in the sea.
Since the bone-dry, it's been water for me.
Been on the Southern, the Seaboard, too.
It takes a Henry Ford for to shake me an' you.

7. Oh, me and my partner we both ran to bed,
The jug o' white lightning right under my head.
When I woke up, my supper was cold.
My jug it was empty; Lord, my partner was told(?).