BABY, PLEASE DON'T GO
(Big Joe Williams)

1. Baby, please don't go.
Baby, please don't go.
Baby, please don't go back to New Orleans.
You know I love you so.

2. Turn your lamp down low.
Turn your lamp down low.
Turn your lamp down low, now baby, all night long,
Now baby, please don't go.

3. I believe your man done gone.
I believe a man done gone to the county farm,
He got his shackles on.

4. Afore I be your dog,
Afore I be your dog, I git you way down here,
I make you walk the log.

5. You got me way down here.
You got me way down here.
You got me way down here by a rollin' fog
You treat me like a dog.
Baby, please don't go.

6. Don't call my name.
Don't call my name.
Don't call my name; you got me way down here,
Wearin' a ball an' chain.

7. Baby, please don't go.
Baby, please don't go.
Baby, please don't go back to New Orleans.
You know I love you so.

RtS
(From the singing of Mississippi Fred McDowell & others)