Lyr, Add: DANVILLE GIRL (3)
(Lomax-Seegar notes)

Oh, I went down to Danville,
Got stuck on a Danville girl.
You bet your life she's out of sight,
She wears those Danville curls.

She wears her hair on the back of her head
Like all high-toned people do.
The very first train that leaves this town
I'm goin' to bid that girl adieu.

I don't see why I love that girl,
For she never cared for me.
But still my mind is on that girl
Wherever she may be.

Look up, look down this lonesome road
Hang down your head and cry.
The very best friends have to part some time,
Then why can't you and I?

It's forty miles through the rock,
It's sixty miles through the sand,
Oh, I relate to you the life
Of a many poor married man.

The first three verses hang together, and identifies the song. The last two are filler (three very popular songs brought to mind in verse 4, and one or two more in verse 5).

"From Alan Lomax's notes to Pete Seegar02, "There are stanzas in this one from so many different hobo songs, sung in so many different ways, that one might call this the master hobo song. Actually I had some hand in mixing the verses together [an old Lomax trick] in American Ballads and Folk Songs (Macmillan, 1934), from which this version comes." Posted in "Bluegrass Messengers:"" Danville Girl

"Brownsville Girl" by Dylan uses a couple of lines from this song, but it is really a different song.