Low Down Ways Lyrics - Original Sonny - Sonny Boy Williamson I

Low Down Ways Track 14 3:10 

Sonny Boy Williamson I (John Lee) 

(John Lee Williamson) 

Recorded: December 17, 1938 - Aurora, Illinois- Leland Hotel 

Album: The Bluebird Recordings 1938 RCA #66796 

with Speckled Red (Rufus Perryman) - piano 

probably Willie Hacher - mandolin and Robert Lee McCoy - gtr 

Transcriber: [email protected] 

Now listen here, baby 

Do you think I'm gonna be yo' fool? 

Do what you think, baby 

You want Sonny Boy, to be yo' mule? 

A-ev'rytime I meet you, baby 

Walkin' up an down the street 

You walk by me, smilin' 

Act like you don't wanna speak 

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But I, Iittle girl 

I've got tired of your low down, dirty ways 

Well, now drinkin' whiskey an runnin' round 

Little girl, that's all you crave 

Well now, an I give you my money, baby 

N' you left me cold in hand 

You took my money, an you know you 

Started to raisin' sand 

You start to hittin' in bootleggers 

Drivin' 'em ev'ry whiskey hide she knows it 

Ridin' up an down the street 

An you know with Mr. So and So 

But little girl 

I'm tired of yo' low down, dirty ways 

Well now, drinkin' whiskey an runnin' around 

I just declare that's all you crave 

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Well now, I was gonna by you a Packard, baby 

I was gonna by you a *Packard 2 

I was gonna by you a Cadillac, you know 

Just to try an get along wit'ch you 

I was goin' down to the jewelry sto' 

An I was gonna buy you diamonds ring 

But now you won't treat me nice 

An I ain't gonna buy you a doggone thing 

But little girl 

I'm tired of yo' low down, dirty way 

Well now, drinkin' whiskey an runnin' around 

I just declare that's all you crave 

(harmonica & instrumental) 

Well now-a my mother told me one thing 

You know my father sayed the same 

You runnin' around with this little girl 

Sonny, that's gonna change yo' name 

But I won't pay 'em no mind 

A-I'll continue to drink 

I don't never said I want change 

You know an just sit and think 

But I've got tired 

Of this little girl's low down, dirty ways 

Now an when I leave her this time 

I swear I'm gonna away 'n stay. 

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*Packard - 2 was a 4 door sedan.