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Thread #39464 Message #560102
Posted By: Steve Latimer
27-Sep-01 - 03:28 PM
Thread Name: Origin: Ain't No More Cane on This Brazos
Subject: Lyr Add: AIN'T NO MORE CANE
Ain't No More Cane Leadbetter
Oct. 1962 THE GASLIGHT TAPES (T-104)
Ain't no more cane on the Brazos, oohoohooh. They done grounded it all to molasses, mm mm mm.
Should a-been on the river in 1910, mm mm mm. They were driving women just like men, mm mm mm.
Should a-been on the river in nineteen five, oohoohooh. Find yourself lucky to be alive, ohoohooh.
Go down old Hannah, don't you rise no more, mm mm mm. Don't you rise till judgement day, mm mm mm.
Ain't no more cane on the Brazos, mm mm mm. They done grounded it all to molasses, mm mm mm.