Idabel Blues

Runnin' hard and runnin' fast

Tryin' to get away

Goin' to the bayou

Where no one knows my name

No one knows my name

Won't you hide me Pa

'Fore the Red River is my grave

Is my grave

Won't you hide me Pa

'Fore the Red River is my grave

Is my grave

Well, I had a job real good pay

Watching summer's crops

Made a hundred bucks a day

Guardin' those green tops

Guardin' those green tops

Won't you hide me Pa

'Fore the Red River is my grave

Is my grave

Won't you hide me Pa

'Fore the Red River is my grave

Is my grave

August night up real high

Rifle in my hand

Whiskey drinks, forty winks

They cleared my buddy's land

Cleared my buddy's land

Won't you hide me Pa

'Fore the Red River is my grave

Is my grave

Won't you hide me Pa

'Fore the Red River is my grave

Is my grave

Well I spent my time in Idabel

Just tryin' to get ahead

Friends I've known all my life

Are wishin' I was dead

Wishin' I was dead

Won't you hide me Pa

'Fore the Red River is my grave

Is my grave

Won't you hide me Pa

'Fore the Red River is my grave

Is my grave

Running hard, runnin' fast

Tryin' to get away

Goin' to the bayou

Where no one knows my name

No one knows my name

Won't you hide me Pa

'Fore the Red River is my grave

Is my grave

Won't you hide me Pa

'Fore the Red River is my grave

Is my grave

Won't you hide me Pa

'Fore the Red River is my grave

Is my grave

Won't you hide me Pa

'Fore the Red River is my grave

Is my grave