Lead Belly Quotes

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• Last Saturday night, I got married, me and my wife settled down. Now me and my wife are parted, I'm gonna take another stroll downtown.
• Sometimes I live in the country, sometimes I live in town. Sometimes I take a great notion, to jump into the river and drown.
• I love Irene, God knows I do, I'll love her till the seas run dry but if Irene should turn me down, I'd take the…
• Stop rambling, stop your gambling, stop staying out late at night. Go home to your wife and your family, stay there by your fireside bright.
• Ain't it a shame to go fishin on a Sunday. Ain't it a shame. Ain't it a shame to go fishin on a Sunday. When…
• Ain't it a shame to beat your wife on Sunday. When you got Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday Oh, Thursday, Friday, Saturday.
• I'm Alabama bound and if the train don't stop and turn around.
• Oh, don't you leave me here but if you must go anyhow. Just leave a dime for beer.
• Oh don't you be like me. Drink your good sweet cherry wine and let that whiskey be.
• Well your hair don't curve and your eyes ain't blue. Well if you don't want me, polly Ann Well I don't want you.
• When I was a little bitty baby. My mama would rock me in the cradle. In them old cotton fields back home.
• It was down in Louisiana. Just a mile from. Texarkana In them old cotton fields back home.
• It may sound a little funny but you didn't make very much money. In them old cotton fields back home.
• Twinkle, twinkle, twinkle, little star. Up comes Brady in a 'lectric car. Got a mean look all 'round his eye. Gonna shoot somebody jus' to…
• Duncan, Duncan was tending the bar. In walked Brady with a shining star and Brady says, Duncan you are under arrest and Duncan shot a…
• Well, las' Monday mornin', Lawd, Lawd, Lawd. My daddy went a-huntin. Well, he carried along his zulu1.
• Well, along come a grey goose. Well, he throwed it to his shoulder, An' he ram his hammer' way back. Well, he pulled on de…
• Well, down he come a-windin. He was six weeks a-fallin. He was six weeks a-findin. An' he put him on de wagon,
• An'he taken him to de white house. He was six weeks a-pickin. Lordy, your wife an'my wife, Oh, they give a feather pickin'
• Oh boys, is you right? Done got right! All I hate 'bout linin' track.

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