Lyr Req: Verses for Pallet on the Floor

Subject: Lyr Req: Verses for Pallet on the Floor
From: lefthanded guitar
Date: 11 Jun 07 - 06:39 PM

I was asked to list any 'extra' verses I've learned for Make Me A Pallet on the Floor. Some are probably familiar but I've listed them in the version I know.

Here are some I've collected through the years, from folksingers performing at various venues, records and even one from a mystery that was set in Boston. I may have mentioned that I have played this song more than any other song I've sung since I started playing music in my teens. Every few years a new verse comes along which seems to add a new meaning to life's journey of this song. Please feel free to add ones you know:

I'd be more than satisfied
If I could catch a train and ride
If I reach Atlanta and got no place to go
Please make me a pallet on the floor.

I'm tired and I can't work no more
I'm tired and I can't work no more
I'm tired, sad and weary and I can't work no more
Won't you make me down a pallet on the floor?

These blues are all I get to see
These worried blues are all I get to see
These worried blues are all I ever see
No body's got the blues like me.

Some folks will beat you with a rubber hose
Some folks will beat you when you fall
And some folks will hit you when you're up against the wall
These folks are not that kind at all.

(And my favorite)
I'm going up country where the cold wind blows
I'm going up country where the cold wind blows
I am going up the country with the wind and white snow
Ain't telling how much further I may go.

CHO: Make me down a pallet on the floor
Make me down a pallet on the floor
Make it soft, make it low,
Ain't no one have to know
Make me down a pallet on the floor.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Verses for Pallet on the Floor
From: Peace
Date: 11 Jun 07 - 06:50 PM

Lots more here.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Verses for Pallet on the Floor
From: Peace
Date: 11 Jun 07 - 06:53 PM

Also,

Google

youtube

Put

Make me a pallet on your floor

in the search box. About ten versions there.