I'M SAD AND I'M LONELY
As sung by Carl Sandburg on "The Great Carl Sandburg: Songs of America" (1999)

I'm sad and I'm lonely; my heart it will break.
My sweetheart loves another; Lord, I wish I was dead.

My cheeks once were red as the bud on the rose,
But now they are whiter than the lily that grows.

Young ladies, take warnin'; take a warnin' from me:
Don't waste your affection on a young man so free.

He'll hug you; he'll kiss you; he'll tell you more lies
That the cross-ties on the railroad or the stars in the sky.

I'll build me a cabin in the mountain so high,
Where the blackbird can't see me or hear my sad cry.

I'm troubled; I'm troubled; I'm troubled in mind.
If trouble don't kill me, I'll live a long time.