Key: D major
Verse 1
to get behind the sun.
I weighed down a new iberi,
all the work was done.
Yes, I told my mother, oh my lord,
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just before I left.
Oh, I'm leaving here walking
and talking all by myself.
Sometimes, sometimes boys leave
home a little bit too young.
Wow. This is not going to be,
I didn't make this myself,
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but I'm going to do it.
You're on your way, huh?
Anytime you're ready,
you just say what you want.
Alright, now this is,
I'm going to do this now.
I didn't make this.
Well, down in Louisiana, at the schools,
they sing it to the school children.
Well, Jacksonville, Louisiana,
that's the crazy house,
called N. Sam Sala, you know.
And there was a man,
he had a pretty wife,
which all women is pretty,
all them ain't pretty, they're good
-looking.
And he, she went to lose her mind
by the husband.
So, down at Jacksonville, Louisiana,
we'd go out and play.
We had an eight -piece
band.
And we'd go out and play
for the insane silent people.
And they would dance.
Well, this girl, her husband was there.
She was there.
Her husband would go out all the time when we'd go,
and he'd sing to her.
And when she, two women had her,
sit her right down
where she could look dead at her husband,
her husband standing over here.
I'm on one side of her,
and Vicki Hickley played a clarinet,
he was on the other side.
He was in the middle,
and he'd sing this song.
And this brought her back,
and two weeks after he sang this song,
she come back to her senses
and they went back together.
They're right down there now,
they got a family,
and if I ever go to Baton Rouge,
I'm going out there to see them.
Out to St. Francisville, Louisiana,
that's where they live.
I'm going out and see them.
And he used to sing this,
and I used to play it,
and Victor Hickory.
And she looked dead at her husband,
and once he gets through singing,
they let her get to him.
And she just run right in to him,
just about to knock him down,
just grab him, he just hug her.
But this song, he was telling her,
he danced with somebody else,
it wasn't her,
but one he won was was her
and so she took it and this is it.
How did you like the song?
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