CRYING MOTHER BLUES
Red Nelson [source: Oliver's "The Story Of The Blues", p. 9]


Dear mother's dead and gone to glory, my dad gone straight away,
Dear mother's dead and gone to glory, my dad gone straight away,
Only way to meet my mother, I will have to change my lowdown ways.

Tomb-stones my pillow, graveyard gonna be my bed,
Tomb-stones my pillow, graveyard gonna be my bed,
Blue skies gonna be my blanket and the pale moon
my spread.