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Thread #164393   Message #3933005
Posted By: GUEST,Martin
24-Jun-18 - 10:21 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: North Carolina Blues (Midnight Special?)
Subject: Lyr Req: North Carolina Blues (Midnight Special?)
Hi

If someone could help me to fill these missing lyrics from North Carolina Blues, a song by Lewis McDaniels, recorded in 1930? It's kind of a variation from Midnight Special.

Many thanks!



When you go to North Carolina, you better walk right
You better not gamble, and you better not fight

If ,                        they’ll take you right down
If you got no money, you’re                bound

        clock in the morning, when the ding dong ring
You go to the table, it’s the same old thing

A cup of coffee on the table, as better as go
If you don’t like bad boy, don’t drink it at all

Yonder come my woman, oh how do you know
She got the same old apron, she always wore

Red ribbon on her shoulder, and her money in her hand
         stand back captain, I come after my man

Six o’clock in the evening, when the ding dong ring
You go to the table, it’s the same old thing

Corn bread on the table, as hard as a rock
Ain’t that enough lady, to break

If anybody ask you, who sang this song
Tell                                been here but gone