Here's an older version. You can hear it at YouTube. I wonder if Jim Jackson and John Jackson were related?


I'M GONNA START ME A GRAVEYARD OF MY OWN
Jim Jackson, Vocalion 1164, 1928.

I'm gonna start a graveyard of my own
If that man don't leave my gal alone.
Oh, my razor certain am a trusty blade.
Lay that man right in the shade.
I'm gonna start a graveyard of my own.

Oh, she bundled up my clothes and throwed 'em out o' doors.
I'm gonna start a graveyard of my own.
Well, she give me the sack, but I'll never come back,
And I'm gonna start a graveyard of my own.

Yeah, I'm gonna start a graveyard of my own
If that man don't leave my girl alone.
Oh, my razor certain am a trusty blade.
Lay that man right in the shade.
I'm gonna start a graveyard of my own.

'Cause I'm round here, down here, I ain't good lookin' but found here.
I don't b'lieve nobody'll drive me 'way.
Yes, I'm round here, down here, I ain't good lookin' but found here
I don't b'lieve nobody'll drive me 'way.

She bundled up my clothes and throwed 'em out o' doors.
I'm gonna start a graveyard of my own.
She give me the sack, but I'll never come back,
And I'm gonna start a graveyard of my own.

SPOKEN: Folks, I was down to a girl's house the other night. She told me she didn't have no one to come to see her. I went down there, knocked on the door, she told me to come in. Whilst I was sittin' down there, another man come down there larger than I was. He come in and I spoke to him, and he spoke awful dry. And to let me know he owned everything down there, he went on through in the back room. Whilst he was in there, this girl say, "Don't pay that man no mind." Say, "He used to be something here, but he ain't nothing here now." I say, "I ain't studyin' 'bout that man, 'cause I'm just—

'Round here, down here, I ain't good lookin' but found here.
I don't b'lieve nobody'll drive me 'way.

'Cause I'm gonna start a graveyard of my own
If that man don't leave my girl alone
Oh, my razor certain am a trusty blade.
Lay that man right in the shade.
I'm gonna start a graveyard of my own.