BETWEEN MIDNIGHT AND DAY
(Son House)

You know, the minutes, they seem like hours.
Sometime the hours, they seem like days.
I say, the minutes, they seem like hours.
Sometime the hours, they seem like days.
You know it look like my baby, oughta stop her low-down ways.

I wish sometimes I had a whole heaven of my own.
Oh, sometime I wish I had me a heaven of my own.
I say, I'd give all my women, I say, a long, long happy home.

You know, it's a shame to love someone don't love you.
Oh, ain't it a shame, oh, to love someone don't love you.
Don't look like it'll never be satisfaction,
I don't care what in the world you do.

I'm goin' away. I ain't never comin' back no more.
I say, I'm goin' away, little girl.
I'm never comin' back no more.
I say, when I leave this time, I say,
I'm gonna hang crepe upon your door.

I woke up this mornin', just between midnight and day.
Oh, got up this mornin', just between midnight and day.
You know, I was still huggin' the pillow, oh, where she used to lay.

You know, I cried last night, I say, an' I cried the night before.
Oh, I cried last night, yeah. I spent all that night before.
I think I'll change my way of livin', oh, so I won't have to cry no more.

You know, it's a shame, you know, it's a low-down dirty shame.
Lord, it's a shame. Ain't that a low-down dirty shame?
I'm so sorry today, baby, oh, that I ever knowed your little ol' name.

Recorded by Son House on "Delta Blues and Spirituals," 1995.
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