BLACK DOG BLUES
As sung by The Stoneman Family on the various-artists compilation "If You Ain't Got the Do-Re-Mi: Songs of Rags and Riches"

Oh, you call me a dog when I'm gone, gone, gone; oh, it's coal-black dog when I'm gone,
But when I come back with a hundred-dollar bill, "Oh, babe, where you been so long?"

Oh, I've been way down in old Kentucky, to the state of Tennessee.
And it's any old place that I hang my hat, it looks like home to me.

Oh, my papa he learned me to gamble; told me bet on the deuce and trey.
And when I see my deal go down, I raise(?) on that ace, deuce and trey.

Oh, you call me a dog when I'm gone, gone, gone; oh, it's coal-black dog when I'm gone,
But when I come back with a hundred-dollar bill, "Oh, babe, where you been so long?"

Oh, I rolled my dice in Cuba and I played my cards in Spain,
And when I see my last old dollar's done gone, I leave on that old freight train.

Oh, you call me a dog when I'm gone, gone, gone; oh, it's coal-black dog when I'm gone,
But when I come back with a hundred-dollar bill, "Oh, babe, where you been so long?"