Don't Go Down Baby - Robert Petway - Big Joe Williams

My blues tripped a-really soon this mornin, baby

And it really did throw me down, yeah

My blues tripped me this mornin, baby

And it really sho' did throw me down

My baby tol' me last night, baby

'I'm gonna leaves old Greenland town'

And so don’t you go, baby

'Cause you sure really worryin' me

Don’t you go now, baby

'Cause you really is worryin' po' me

I leave in the mo’nin now, sweet mama

I’m goin' back to Jackson, Tennessee

She said, 'Don't go baby'

Oh baby, I believe to my soul I’m dyin'

Yes, yes, yeah

She said, 'Don't go, baby'

I believe to my soul I’m dyin'

If I ain’t dyin', I’m a black man

And I believe to my, all to my soul, I’m lyin'

I’s gon' go down, baby

'Cause I ain’t gonna tell you even no lie

Don’t go down, baby

Ain’t gon' even tell you no lie

Day you quit me now, little woman

Oh an d’ats, d’ats the day you gonna die

Wouldn’t mind dyin' now, baby

But I got to go by myself

Yes, yeah

Wouldn’t mind dyin' now, baby

But I’ve got to go by myself

But I don’t mind dyin' little woman

I’m gonna carry me to someone else

Oh well, dyin' is hard to me

Says, oh well, baby

Dyin' sure is hard to me

My baby told, 'You don’t' dies, baby

Well, you sho' gotta have a-doggone t.

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