| Blues in the bottle, blues in the bottle
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| Trouble in my hands, pretty mama
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| Blues in the bottle, trouble in my hands
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| I’m goin' back to Fort Worth
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| Find me another man
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| Dig your taters, o dig your taters
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| It’s tater diggin' time, pretty mama
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| O dig your taters, it’s tater diggin' time
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| Old man Jack Frost
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| Done an' killed your vine
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| Asked my baby, asked my baby
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| Could she stand to see me cry, pretty mama
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| Asked my baby could she stand to see me cry
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| She said, whoa black daddy
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| I can stand to see you die
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| Rooster chews tobacco, rooster chews tobacco
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| The hen uses snuff, pretty mama
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| That rooster chews tobacco and the hen uses snuff
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| The little chickens don’t take nothin'
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| But they strut their stuff
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| Went to Tadinoodie (?), went to Tadinoodie
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| See my pony run, pretty mama
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| Went to Tadinoodie, see my pony run
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| If I win some money
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| Gonna give my baby some |