| Went away up the river some forty miles or more
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| I think I heard that big Jim Lee, he blowed
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| Oh, she blow, so lonesome, like she wasn’t gonna blow no more
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| It blowed like my baby was gettin' on board
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| Well, my Mama -- she’s dead
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| Oh, and my father -- well he could be
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| I ain’t got nobody to feel and care for me
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| And if you don’t want me, well just give me your hand
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| 'Cause you’ll get a woman quick as I, I get a man (alright)
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| Well, I laid my head in a deceitful man’s arms
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| And he laid, well, he laid his head back in mine
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| Oh, it was moonshine, don’t you pay me no mind
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| 'Cause I did not let no other man have mine
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| Well that big Jim Lee keep on backin' up and down
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| Man stand by the shore, well, if you’re water bound
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| Come on, now |