Patty, As some already know on this site, I freely admit to being (now turned) 53 and to growing up on a farm in West Tennessee, so know all about cotton and corn patches. I also know about family cemeteries or some stones often hidden in woods and long forgotten. I guess my friend and I both want to make something that should be "simple" and taken at face value..complicated. I printed out all the words, so with lines like "Your momma's gone away and your daddy's gone to stay" and "She's lone gone with the red shoes on Gonna meet another lovin baby" and "You and me and the devil makes three Don't need no other lovin baby" just makes it hard to think that momma and daddy are just out hoeing/pulling cottom or corn and is letting the baby sleep in the cool..with a friend until they return. Oh well, as I said..we just like to make it complicated!! I also found on the Wisconsin Public Radio (archives) show that they played "Didn't Leave Nobody But the Baby" by Mrs. Sidney Carter (1959 Senatobia, MS) Southern Journey: 61 Highway MississippiRounder 1703. I tried to go to Rounder page and just got the "error" message even when I refreshed the page. Would like to hear the original, and also to know more about Mrs. Sidney Carter. Did she write the song or was it one of the old folk songs that she heard as a child. (Like the songs on the Childballad site) Well, anyway, thanks for your response!! Maybe some others will add their knowledge. Also, I would add that I have Mudcat to thank so much anyway, as they did a wonderful job in helping me find songs that my Uncle sang and I was trying to find sources. My Uncle (Franklin) died this Jan 14th, but because of all the wonderful feedback from the Mudcat forum, we now have many many of his songs and the words for them that I wouldn't have been able to find on my own. THANKS! judy