Snatch It Back Blues

Snatch It Back Blues-Buddy Boy Hawkins
Buddy Boy Hawkins, vocal and guitar in Spanish tuning

INTRO (SPOKEN: Listen here, peoples--these are my blues I brung all the way from Birmingham. You know when they feels good to me, it's bound to get good for you. Honestly, how you like that?)

I'm gon' lay my head, down on some railroad track
I say, I'm gon' lay my head, mama, down on some railroad track
Boy, when that train come along, (train whistle effect) I'm gonna snatch it back

Tell me, brownskin mama, where did you stay last night?
I said, tell me, mama, where did you stay last night?
With your hair all down, your face ain't never wiped

I say I love you, pretty mama, I don't care what you do
I say I love you, mama, I don't care what you do
You go to your black man, mama, I'll stick to my gal

I say if you don't need your black woman, you didn't have to carry no heavy stall
If you don't want me, mama, you ain't got to carry your heavy stall (Spoken: How come I say that?)
Because I can get more jet-black women than a, Southern freight train can haul

I say oo-oo-oo-oo, twa, twa, twa, twa, twa twa, twa
I say hey-ey, mm-mm-mm-mm
Oo-oo-oo, oo-oo-oo-oo

CODA

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