19 Jul 99 - 10:09 PM (#97126) Subject: LYRICS ADD: Cigarette Blues From: katlaughing From "Bookeroo!" by Roy Book Binder, 1988, Rounder Records. (*** indicates where he uses guitar, instead of words for a bawdy word) Cigarette Blues
Since I'm out here, baby, course I'm all alone,
Going up the country, git my ashes hauled
Going up the country, get my ham bone boiled
One thing that I want you to know before I leave from home
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27 Dec 07 - 03:39 PM (#2223342) Subject: Lyr Add: CIGARETTE BLUES (Bo Carter) From: Jim Dixon CIGARETTE BLUES As recorded by Bo Carter, 1936. 1. Says, I come over here, sweet baby, 'cause I'm all alone. Haven't got nobody just to carry my smokin' on. CHORUS: Won't you just draw my cigarette, smoke it there all night long? Just draw my cigarette, baby, until you make my good ashes come. 2. Now I got to go up the country, just to get my cigarette boil'. The women 'round this place gonna let my cigarette spoil. 3. I come over here, sweet baby, just to get my ashes haul'. Lord, the women at the other place gonna let my ashes fall. 4. Here's one thing I want you to know, 'fore you leave from home: My cigarette ain't too big, and you know it ain't too long. |
27 Dec 07 - 04:11 PM (#2223359) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Cigarette Blues (Roy Book Binder) From: Wesley S Pure poetry! |
27 Dec 07 - 04:14 PM (#2223361) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Cigarette Blues (Roy Book Binder) From: katlaughing Thanks for the source, Jim! |