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Thread #4680   Message #2223256
Posted By: Jim Dixon
27-Dec-07 - 12:07 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Diggin' My Potatoes (Washboard Sam)
Subject: Lyr Add: DIGGIN' MY POTATOES (Washboard Sam)
This is from Michael Taft's Pre-War Blues Lyrics:

DIGGIN' MY POTATOES
Washboard Sam
Chicago, 15 May 1939
(034797- ) BB-B8211 BC-10

Baby's digging my potatoes : tramping on my vines
I have a special plan : resting on my mind

I don't eat no cabbage sprouts : bring me solid head
Go to call a wagon : if I find him in my bed

Now she powdered her face : *Lord her* wavy hair
Caught a taxicab : she's out across town somewhere

Said my vine's coloured green : potatoes solid red
Never found a bruised one : till I caught them in my bed