Album Credits

Make me Down a Pallete

Make me down a pallet on your floor

Make me down a pallet on your floor

Make me down a pallet soft and low

When I'm broke and I've got nowhere to go

Been hanging round with good-time friends of mine

Hanging around with good-time friends of mine

Oh, they treat me very nice and kind

When I've got a dollar and a dime

Weary blues are everywhere I see

Weary blues are everywhere I see

Weary blues, honey, everywhere I see

No one's ever had the blues like me

Way I'm sleeping, my back and shoulders tired

Way I'm sleeping, my back and shoulders tired

Come tomorrow, I'll be satisfied

If I can catch that fast train and ride

So make me down a pallet on your floor

Make me down a pallet on your floor

Make me down a pallet soft and low

When I'm broke and I've got nowhere to go

Can't You Hear Me Callin’

The days are long the nights are lonely

Since you left me all alone

I worried so my little darling

I worried so since you've been gone

Sweetheart of mine can't you hear me calling

A million times that I love you best

I mistreated you, darling, I'm sorry

Come back to me is my request

I remember dear the night we parted

A big mistake had caused it all

If you come back sunshine will follow

If you stay away twill be my fall

The nights are long my little darling

Oh how I need your sweet embrace

When I awoke the sun was shining

I looked up and I saw your face

Blues Stay Away From Me

Blues, stay away from me

Blues, why don't you let me be?

I don't know why you keep on haunting me

Love was never meant for me

True love was never meant for me

It seems somehow, we never can agree

Life is full of misery

Dreams are like a memory

Bringing back your love that used to be

Tears so many I can't see

Years don't mean a thing to me

Time goes by and still, I can't be free

Half Acre

I am holding half an acre

Torn from the map of Michigan

And folded in this scrap of paper

Is the land I grew in

Think of every town you've lived in

Every room you lay your head

And what is it that you remember

Do you carry every sadness with you

Every hour your heart was broken

Every night the fear and darkness

Lay down with you

A man is walking on the highway

A woman stares out at the sea

And light is only now just breaking

So we carry every sadness with us

Every hour our hearts were broken

Every night the fear and darkness

Lay down with us

Going Down to the River

Im going down to the river when the moon comes out tonight

Im going down to the river when the moon comes out tonight

Im going down to the river cuz I feel like Im losing

Down to the River cuz the river keeps moving

Down to the river when the moon comes out tonight

Im gonna take my worries to the water and wash them away

Im gonna take my worries to the water and wash them away

You know that cool cool waters gonna soothe my soul

That cool cool waters gonna. make me whole

Take my worries to the water and wash them away

Something tells me everything will be alright

You know that something tells me everything will be alright

Sometimes it hits you hard and knocks you down

Sometimes it hits you right up off the ground

Something tells me everything will be alright

Im going down to the river when the moon comes out tonight

Im going down to the river when the moon comes out tonight

Im going down to the river cuz I feel like Im losing

Down to the River cuz the river keeps moving

Down to the river when the moon comes out tonight

Im going down to the river cuz I feel like Im losing

Down to the River cuz the river keeps moving

Down to the river when the moon comes out tonight

Daisy a Day

He remembers the first time he met er

He remembers the first thing she said

He remembers the first time he held her

And the night that she came to his bed

He remembers her sweet way of sayin

Honey has somethin gone wrong

He remembers the fun and the teasin

And the reason he wrote er this song

Ill give you a daisy a day, dear

Ill give you a daisy a day

Ill love you until the rivers run still

And the four winds we know blow away

They would walk down the street in the evenin

And for years I would see them go by

And their love that was more than the clothes that they wore

Could be seen in the gleam of their eyes

As a kid they would take me for candy

And I loved to go taggin along

Wed hold hands while we walked to the corner

And the old man would sing er his song

Ill give you a daisy a day, dear

Ill give you a daisy a day

Ill love you until the rivers run still

And the four winds we know blow away

Now he walks down the street in the evenin

And he stops by the old candy store

And I somehow believe hes believin

Hes holdin er hand like before

For he feels all her love walkin with him

And he smiles at the things she might say

Then the old man walks up to the hilltop

And gives her a daisy a day

Ill give you a daisy a day, dear

Ill give you a daisy a day

Ill love you until the rivers run still

And the four winds we know blow away

Cornbread and Butterbeans

Cornbread and butterbeans and you across the table

Eatin' them beans and makin' love as long as I am able

Hoein' corn and cotton too, and when the day is over

Ride the mule and cut the fool and love again all over

Goodbye, don't you cry, I'm going to Louisiana

To buy a coon dog and a big fat hog and marry Susie Anna

Same song, ding-dong, I'll take a trip to China

Cornbread and butterbeans, then back to North Carolina

Cornbread and butterbeans and you across the table

Eatin' them beans and makin' love as long as I am able

Hoein' corn and cotton too, and when the day is over

Ride the mule and cut the fool and love again all over

Wearin' shoes and drinking booze, it goes against the Bible

A necktie will make you die and cause you lots of trouble

Streetcars and whiskey bars and kissing pretty women

Women, yeah, that's the end of a terrible beginning

And cornbread and butterbeans and you across the table

Eatin' them beans and makin' love as long as I am able

Hoein' corn and cotton too, and when the day is over

Ride the mule and cut the fool and love again all over

I can't read and don't care and education is awful

Raising heck and writin' checks, it ought to be unlawful

Silk hose and frilly clothes is just a waste of money

Come with me and stay with me and say you'll be my honey

And cornbread and butterbeans and you across the table

Eatin' them beans and makin' love as long as I am able

Hoein' corn and cotton too, and when the day is over

Ride the mule and cut the fool and love again all over

Why Don't You Do Right

You had plenty money 1922

You let other women make a fool of you

Why don't you do right, like some other men do?

Get out of here and get me some money too?

You're sitting there wondering what it's all about

You ain't got no money, they will put you out

Why don't you do right, like some other men do?

Get out of here and get me some money too?

If you had prepared 20 years ago

You wouldn't be a-wanderin' out from door to door

Why don't you do right, like some other men do?

Get out of here and get me some money too

I fell for your jivin' and I took you in

Now all you got to offer me's a drink of gin

Why don't you do right, like some other men do?

Get out of here and get me some money too

Why don't you do right, like some other men do?

Like some other men do

Plastic Jesus

I don't care if it rains or freezes

As long as I got my plastic Jesus

Sittin' on the dashboard of my car

Going ninety, it ain't scary

Cause I got the Virgin Mary

Sittin' on the dashboard of my car

I'm in the back seat sinnin'

Jesus up there grinnin'

Sittin' on the dashboard of my car

Green, white, pink or yellow

I don't care cause he's my fellow

Sittin' on the dashboard of my car

I don't care if it rains or freezes

As long as I got my plastic Jesus

Sittin' on the dashboard of my car

Going ninety, it ain't scary

Cause I got the Virgin Mary

Sittin' on the dashboard of my car

I'm in the back seat sinnin'

Jesus is up there grinnin'

Sittin' on the dashboard of my car

Green, white, pink or yellow

I don't care cause he's my fellow

Sittin' on the dashboard of my car

In My Girlish Days

Late of the night, trying to play my hand

Through my window, there stepped a man

I didn't know no better

Oh boys

In my girlish days

My mama cried, papa did, too

Oh, he said daughter, what a shame on you

I didn't know no better

Oh boys

In my girlish days

I flagged a train, didn't have a dime

Trying to run away from that home of mine

I didn't know no better

Oh boys

In my girlish days

I hit the highway, caught me a truck

I was so young and the world was so so tough

I didn't know no better

Oh boys

In my girlish days

You Got me Runnin’

You Got me Runnin’

You got me runnin', you got me hidin'

You got me run, hide, hide, run

Anyway you wanna let it roll

Yeah, yeah, yeah

You got me doin' what you want me

A baby why you wanna let go?

I'm goin' up, I'm goin' down

I'm goin up, down, down, up

Anyway ya wanna let it roll

Yeah, yeah, yeah

You got me doin' what you want me

A baby why you wanna let go?

You got me peepin', you got me hidin'

You got me peep, hide, hide, peep

Anyway you wanna let it roll

Yeah, yeah, yeah

You got me doin' what you want me

Oh baby why you wanna let go?

You got me runnin', you got me hidin'

You got me run, hide, hide, run

Anyway you wanna let it roll

Yeah, yeah, yeah

You got me doin' what you want me

A baby why you wanna let go?

$2.83

Hi, my name is Amy and Ill be serving you tonight

Ive got coffee, beer and smiles as long as you treat me right

I don't ask for much in my simple life

You don't have to dress up or any of the like

I got bills, I was a student you see

And all they give me is $2.83

$2.83 is all they give (Yes thats dollars and cents ladies and gentlemen)

$2.83 is all they give me

You can ask me dumb questions and Ill be honest with a smile

I will tell you whats good and whats not

As long as you tip me in style

You see my life isnt free like you think

Ive got bills to pay they aint rinky-dink

All Im asking is compassion you see

Cuz all they give me is $2.83

$2.83 is all they give (Yes that before taxes)

$2.83 is all they give me

Its been a pleasure to have you, I hope to see you again

Sign your name by the "X" on the line, make sure to add and be kind

Im not a second-class citizen

I pay all my taxes Ive got discipline

I'd like to think you appreciate me 

So, add 20%.....

And thats where you take the first number of the total from all of the human American food you ate in one sitting, times by two add it all up together and GIVE ME MY PEN BACK

...to $2.83

$2.83 is all they give (Thats 17 cents less than a soda!)

$2.83 is all they give me

Orphan Girl

I am an orphan on God's highway

But I'll share my troubles if you go my way

I have no mother no father

No sister no brother

I am an orphan girl

I have had friendships pure and golden

But the ties of kinship I have not known them

I know no mother no father

No sister no brother

I am an orphan girl

But when He calls me I will be able

To meet my family at God's table

I'll meet my mother my father

My sister my brother

No more an orphan girl

Blessed Savior make me willing

And walk beside me until I'm with them

Be my mother my father

My sister my brother

I am an orphan girl

I am an orphan girl