Statesboro Blues Lyrics - The Essential Taj Mahal - Taj Mahal

Wake up mama, turn your lamp down low 

Wake up mama, turn your lamp down low 

Have you got the nerve to drive Papa McTell from your door 

My mother died and left me reckless 

My daddy died and left me wild, wild, wild 

Mother died and left me reckless 

Daddy died and left me wild, wild, wild 

No, I'm not good lookin' 

I'm some sweet woman's Angel child 

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You're a mighty mean woman, to do me this a way 

You're a mighty mean woman, to do me this a way 

When I leave this town, pretty mama, I'm going away to stay 

While I loved a woman, better than even I'd ever seen 

I once loved a woman, better than even I'd ever seen 

Treat me like I was a king and she was a doggone queen 

Sister, tell your brother, brother tell your auntie now 

Auntie tell your uncle, uncle tell my cousin now, cousin tell my friend 

Goin' up the country, mama, don't you want to go? 

May take me a fair brown, may take me one or two more 

Big Eighty left Savannah, Lord, and did not stop 

You ought to saw that colored fireman when he got that boiler hot 

You can reach over in the corner mama and hand me my travelin' shoes 

You know by that, I've got them Statesboro blues 

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Mama, sister got 'em, auntie got 'em 

Brother got 'em, friend got 'em, I got 'em 

Woke up this morning, we had them Statesboro blues 

I looked over in the corner, grandpa and grandma had 'em too