Look Down the Road - Skip James

Look Down The Road 3: 16 Trk 17

Nehemiah Curtis 'Skip' James

Skip James — vocal and piano

Album: Blues From The Delta

From Vanguard 'Today!

' album 1966

Vsd 79 219

Vanguard Records cd 96 517−2 1998

Note: hyphen=word unsung

Look down the road

'Fer as my eyes could see

Hey-hey, yeah

'Fer as my eyes could see

And I couldn’t see nothin'

Looked like mine, to me

I don’t want no woman

Stay out all night long

Yeah, hey-hey-hey

She stay out all night long

I don’t want no woman

Don’t know right from wrong

I wouldn’t have a rooster

He won’t crow 'fore day

Yeah, hey-hey-hey

He won’t crow 'fore day

I wouldn’t have a hen

Won’t cackle when she lay

I don’t want no woman

Got hair like drops a-rain

Hey-hey-hey

Got hair like drops a-rain

Boy, you know this a shame

It’s a pity an a cryin' shame

(guitar)

I ain’t gon' no holler

Comin' the road you’re down'

Hey, hey-hey-hey

Comin' on the road you’re down

I’m gon' stand right here, 'till my

Mustache drag the ground

Mama, low

Papa, saw her and so

Hey-hey-hey-hey

Papa, saw her an s-

She walk like my baby

But she comin' too slow

That’s the reason

I look down the road

'Fer as my eyes could see

Hey-hey-hey-hey

'Fer as my eyes could —

Then I couldn’t see nothin'

Looked like mine, to me