I'd rather be buried way down in some cypress grove I'd rather be buried way down in some cypress grove To have me a woman that I can't control Your knee-bone ...

(traditional) You told me on the phone That you don't have no man at all Fare thee well Babe fare thee well You just told me on the phone That you don't have n...

Bouncin' across the lake of ten years Like a stone tossed from the burglar's hand Holdin' my breath, then I'm sinkin' Waves in circle like a memory slowly fade ...

Fleashine, shoeshine, man of fifteen Brings the house in with a smile All twelve teeth tell myriad stories One upon one and one The breath in his hand waving D...

Skip across the dust in the corner of my room While the walls pull away Keep my hiding spirit shuffling Keep my hiding spirit shuffling You can look but you won...

I could hear them singing like they are gonna fall out Raising hands and hoping, Singing, bringing in the sheets soldiers marching by I want to go there when I ...

The air is turning cold outside It's a rabbi in a brothel for the third time The gold tooth of a broken man A white glove in a purse down at the bottom of the s...

Sometime I live the country Sometime I live in town Sometime I have a grave notion To jump into the river and drown Quit your ramblin' quit your gamblin' Quit ...

Hard Time Killing Floor Blues (Skip James) There's hard times everywhere you go Times is harder ever been before Times is harder than they been before Than th...

Hey brother don't you sing so quiet, no I need a beacon to guide me through the night Oh let me hear your hosanna Come on and let me hear your prayer I'm going ...

Spend my time trying now to get along Spend my time trying now to get along If I had a dollar now for every time I cried Well I'd be a rich man Come the day I d...

I've Been Converted (traditional) I know I've been converted Do you? I know I've been converted Do you? You've got a noose And you'll make me change I'm not a...

(traditional) I said a prayer Jesus Christ sat a-weeping But I meant not to pine That time receiver now was in my ear Well that don't soothe my life That don't...

I've been looking for a home I've been looking for a home But I can't find one Looking for a home but I can't find one Lead me on Lead me on Lead me on I've b...

(Herman Johnson) I wanted to leave here this evening But I stays way too long Wanted to leave here this evening But stays way too long Well the girl that I'm l...

(Joe Callicott) Drive down baby Like showers of rain Can't you hear my fair girl Call my name Can't you hear my fair girl call my name? She calls so loud, it's...

Walking around at midnight Looking for my marking stone Walking around at midnight baby Looking for my marking stone I was born-out this way I was born-out this...

(traditional) Now motherless children Have a hard time with mother dead Motherless children Have a hard time when mother is dead They don't have anywhere to go...

Hip-pocket flask at the ready Step-light downed by the glass, yeah Honey, what's that nail doing in my head? Just a minute ago I was shooting from a saddle Yeah...

Early one morning here as I look at across a worn out plain Early one morning here as I look at across a worn out plain Dust bowl memories you can hear me shout...

When that trouble is getting hard up here You and I know better to tell there Get on a boat, sail the Jordan and jump in the river and drown Deeper and deeper ...

There's one kind of favor I'm gonna ask of you There's one kind of favor I'm gonna ask of you There's one kind of favor I'm gonna ask of you See that my grave i...

Well I ain't got room For all this misery Yeah well I ain't got no room, no room For all this misery Well I ain't got room Yeah, for all this misery If it ain't...

Taylor had a wife, she was married to the mirror Make her glass-eyed lover buy a drink and then another round 'Round the kitchen table lined with cigarettes fro...

That's alright, that's alright My soul gonna sit up in the kingdom, that's alright Some say Peter , some say Paul But one God made us all And my soul gonna sit...

See the black crow fly Flyin' through the sky Yelln'and the wind is howlin' Won't you tell me why? See the black crow flyin' Flyin' through the sky Yelln'and t...

When The Roll Is Called Up Yonder (traditional) When the trumpet of the Lord shall sound and time shall be no more And the morning breaks eternal, bright and f...

Walk for a hundred miles Got me A thousand more to go I walk a hundred miles Got a thousand more to go I can't quit my walking It's about the only thing I know ...

Watch it bounce like water, meat under the stone Throw up a leg and try to be your way back home Smell the coffee boil in the corner pot Everything's in it but ...

Where my sorrow goes, there I'll be Water runs up through my door And washed me clean of my childhood Dirt on the floor, a reminder Well I can't tell you I'm n...

Wonder flood the valley, tunnel feed the soil Free advice with constant wit, never to recoil Bums rush o'er the high grass field with shoes of plastic lace That...