| Chicago, August 6, 1946
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| with Blind John Davis — piano, Willie Lacey — guitar
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| Ransom Knowling — s bass
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| Album: Complete Recorded Works Vol 5
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| October 19, 1945 — November 12, 1947
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| Document Records DOCD 5059
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| Take care of my wife and my baby
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| A-tell 'em I will be back home, someday
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| Take care of my wife and my baby
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| A-tell 'em I will be back home, someday
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| Now, it was stormin', it was raining
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| Man, the day that she walked away
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| I walk this old highway
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| Forty long days an night
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| I walk this old highway, now
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| You know, forty long days an night, yeah
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| Now, an I was just thinkin’about my baby
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| Man, she just a-won't treat me right, yeah
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| Now, the sun is growin’hot, mm Baby, an my shoes is gettin’awful thin
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| You know, the sun is growin hot, mm Oh baby, an my shoes is getting awful thin
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| Now, an I was just wonderin’if my baby
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| Oh Lord, would take me back again, now?
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| 'Alright Lacey, play'
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| (harmonica and instrumental)
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| Lord, the train is blowin'
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| An it is comin’around the bend, yeah
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| You know the train is blowin'
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| An it is comin’around the bend, yeah
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| You know, an I’m just sittin’here thinkin'
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| A-will my baby take me back, again?
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| You know I left my baby
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| Now, when she was only fo’days old
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| You know, I left my little baby
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| A-now, when she was only fo’days old, now
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| I just hope she don’t learn
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| To call no other man, 'Daddy'
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| You know, that’s what worries me so. |