| I’m broke and hungry, ragged and dirty too
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| I said I’m broke and hungry, ragged and dirty too
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| Mama, if I clean up, can I go home with you?
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| I’m motherless, fatherless, sister and brotherless too
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| I said I’m motherless, fatherless, sister and brotherless too
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| Reason I’ve tried so hard to make this trip with you
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| You miss me woman, count the days I’m gone
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| You miss me woman, count the days I’m gone
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| I’m goin' away to build me a railroad of my own
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| I feel like jumpin' through a keyhole in your door
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| I said I feel like jumpin' through the keyhole in your door
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| If you jump this time, baby, you won’t jump no more
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| I believe my good gal have found my black cat bone
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| I said I believe my baby have found my black cat bone
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| I can leave Sunday mornin', Monday mornin' I’m slippin' 'round home
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| I wanna show you women what careless love have done
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| I wanna show you women what careless love have done
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| Caused a man like me, steal away from home
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| Girl if you don’t want me, why don’t you let me know?
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| I said, if you don’t want me, mama let me know
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| So I can leave at once and hunt me somewhere else to go |