"Sometimes I live in the country, sometimes I……" — Lead Belly
"Sometimes I live in the country, sometimes I live in town. Sometimes I take a great notion, to jump into the river and drown."
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30 Quotes by Lead Belly
Lead Belly has 30 quotes on this site.
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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…
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I love Irene, God knows I do, I'll love her till the seas run dry but if Irene should turn…
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Stop rambling, stop your gambling, stop staying out late at night. Go home to your wife and your family, stay…
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Ain't it a shame to go fishin on a Sunday. Ain't it a shame. Ain't it a shame to go…
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Ain't it a shame to beat your wife on Sunday. When you got Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday Oh, Thursday, Friday, Saturday.
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I'm Alabama bound and if the train don't stop and turn around.
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Oh, don't you leave me here but if you must go anyhow. Just leave a dime for beer.
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Oh don't you be like me. Drink your good sweet cherry wine and let that whiskey be.
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Well your hair don't curve and your eyes ain't blue. Well if you don't want me, polly Ann Well I…
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When I was a little bitty baby. My mama would rock me in the cradle. In them old cotton fields…
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It was down in Louisiana. Just a mile from. Texarkana In them old cotton fields back home.
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It may sound a little funny but you didn't make very much money. In them old cotton fields back home.
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I mean, it is an extraordinary thing that a large proportion of your country and my country, of the citizens,…
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Presidents do not go off on leave without telling the country.
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Foreignness is all around. Only in the heart of the heart of the country, namely the heart of the United…
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