Roberta

Oh Roberta! Honey where you been so long?

Oh Roberta! Honey where you been so long?

Yes I been across the country

With my long clothes on

Hon' I'm down on the river

Sittin' down on the ground

Way down on the river

Sittin' down on the ground

Gonna stay right here Lord

Until Roberta come down

Oh Roberta! Tell me where you been so long

Oh Roberta! Tell me where you been so long

'Cross the country

With my long clothes on

[holler]He went down to see Roberta

And Roberta was runnin' on a freight passenger trains

And she got tired of seein' him at the station

And she went to runnin' on the steamboat

He went down on the banks of the river

When he got on the banks of the river

He looked way up the river for Roberta[/holler]

Oh Roberta! Sit down on my knee

Oh Roberta! Sit down on my knee

Got a lot to tell you

That's been worryin' me

Way up the river, far as I can see

Way up the river, far as I can see

Lord I thought I spied my

Old time used-to-be

[holler]He thought he spied Roberta

Wasn't nothin' but a cypress tree[/holler]

Lord I thought I spied my

Old time used-to-be

Yes I thought I spied my

Old time used-to-be

And it was not nothin'

Honey but a cypress tree

[holler]When he was down on the river

Sittin' down on the banks of the river [fluffs a word

here]]

Roberta come along[/holler]

Hon' I'm down on the river

Sittin' down on the ground

Way down on the river

Sittin' down on the ground

Gonna stay right here Lord

Until Roberta come down

Oh Roberta! Tell me where you been so long

Oh Roberta! Tell me where you been so long

'Cross the country

With my long clothes on

[outro, 3 bars end on I7]