If teardrops could flood an ocean I have a notion, you'd try You'd make it in extra fast time Just as a pass time, easy as pie Each time you cry, baby
Were you were raised by the river Down in the low, low land Where the air is dark and sinister In the night there's no safe place to stand In the reeds
Down with love With flowers and rice and shoes Down with love The root of all midnight blues Down with things That give you that well-known pain Take
Look out baby, your man is back in town Look out baby, your man is back in town Look out baby, I won't stand no messin'`round The first man I wanna see
Shake it, baby, before it shakes you Get it, baby and let it take you where you want it to Don't say maybe, that just won't do You say I'm crazy 'cause
Well that sounds like the night train, blowin' its stack Spreading its wings on homeward track Arrived here this morning, won't be here for long As fast
Now baby, I got you on my mind Little by little I watch my love slow down Yeah yeah, do you know what it means to be alone? Today you're laughing, pretty
I got my mojo working It just don't work on you I got my mojo working But it just don't work on you Look out, baby Gonna circle the blues Got your gypsy
Well, you can ride on the crest of a wave If that's where you want to be But does the look on your face Mean you're really feeling happy? Or do you feel
I wanna tell you about my baby Yeah, she ran off with the garbage man I wanna tell you about my baby Yeah, she ran off with the garbage man She better
When my baby she left me, Left me with a mule to ride, When my baby she left me, Left me with a mule to ride, When that train left the station, That old
What do you think of that? I'm sleeping down at the laundromat If you should pass by be sure to drop my bag Come 'round and meet my friends They'll be
Mama's in the kitchen bakin' up a pie Daddy's in the backyard Get a job, son You know you ought to try I packed up my bag, I headed down the road I got
What's this I hear going all around town? The people are sayin' you gonna put the kid down Lordy, what your doing? You call it what you want, I call it
Well I'd know my dog Anywhere hear him bark Well I know my rider If I see her in the dark Ain't it cold for your mother When you don't say that you love
I could've had religion, I could religion But my little girl wouldn't let me pray I swear to the world she drove my spirit away She drove my spirit away
Well, did you ever, Well, did you ever, Well, did you ever, Well, did you ever wake up, With them bullfrogs on your mind? Well, did you ever wake up,
All right... I'm feeling bought and sold, You're just a three card trickster. That's something I should've known, All the good's sure gone bitter. Hear
