Maggie Walker Blues Lyrics - Doc Watson

My parents raised me tenderly, 

They had no child but me. 

My mind being placed on rambling, 

With them I couldn't agree 

Just to leave my aged parents 

And them no more to see. 

There was a wealthy gentleman 

Who lived there very near by. 

He had a beautiful daughter, 

On her I cast an eye. 

She was so tall and slender, 

So pretty and so fair. 

There never was a girl in this whole wide world 

With her I could compare. 

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I asked her if it differed 

If I crossed over the plain. 

She said, "It makes no difference 

If you never return again." 

We too shook hands and parted, 

And I left my girl behind. 

I started out in this wide world 

Strange faces for to see. 

I met little Maggie Walker 

And she fell in love with me. 

Her pockets all lined with greenback 

In her labor I'll grow old, 

Now if you'll consent to marry me 

I'll say I'll roam no more. 

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I traveled out one morning, 

To the salt works I were bound. 

And when I reached the salt works 

I viewed the city all around. 

Work and money were plentiful 

And the girls all kind to me. 

But the only object to my heart 

Was a girl in Tennessee. 

I traveled out one morning 

Down on the market square. 

The mail train being on arrival, 

I met the carrier there. 

He handed me a letter, 

So's I could understand 

That the girl I left in Tennessee 

Had married another man. 

I drove on down a little further 

And found that it was true. 

I turned my horse and buggy around 

But I didn't know what to do. 

I turned all around and about there -- 

Bad company I'll resign; 

I'll drive all about from town to town 

For the girl I left behind.