Cotton Patch Blues

Cotton Patch Girl 2:44 Trk 6 Disc 1

Tommy McClennan

Recorded: Wednesday Nov. 22, 1939 Chicago, Illinois

RCA Studio A., A&R - Lester Melrose

Tommy McClennan - vocal & guitar

Album: RCA Bluebird Recordings 1939-1942

RCA 07863, 67430-2 (BMG Music) 1997

I left my baby in Mississippi

Pickin' cotton down on her knee

I left my babe in Mississippi

Whoo-ooo, pickin' cottton down on her knee

Yeah

She said, 'Babe, you get Chicago all right

Pleee-ase right me a letter, if you please

Yeah

I said, 'Baby that's alright

Baby, that's alright for you'

I said, 'Baby that's al-ri-yi-yight

That's alright for you'

She didn't say,'Wha'ch a-mean?'

You just keep a-pickin' cotton, right there

Oh babe, should I get through

Yeah

Now, I'm 'on leave Mississippi

Hopin' I might flag a ride

Wh' she say?

I said, I 'on leave Mississippi, baby

Hopin' I might flag a ride

An if I don't get nobody

Oh babe, I'm gon' pass on by

'Play that bossman'

(guitar)

Yeah

Ye-aah

Babe, when I get in Chicago

I'd a-swear I'm 'on take a train

'Take your time now and play it right

'A 'cause it's last go round'

When I get in Chicago, babe

I'd a-swear I'm 'on take a train

Yeah

I know when I get back to Mississippi

I'm sure gonna change yo' name.

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