Little School Girl - Lighnin' Hopkins

Little school girl

Let me tote your books to school today

Please, little school girl

Let me tote your books to school today

She said, «I says you’s a bad boy

Mama said please keep you away»

(spoken: That’s what she said about Lightnin')

Mama want to know what you’re doin'

Yes, after you get out of her sight

She said «If I let you tote my books

Still I know, Sam, that ain’t right»

When I get back home with my mother and dad

That’s where I might have a fight

I told the school teacher

Little school girl carryin' too heavy a load

Yes, I told that school teacher

Little girl was carryin' too heavy a load

She say, «You better get your big, bare feets

Lightnin', make it down the road»

(spoken: That little school girl was all right in her place

But she got me, so I walked away and I say…)

Good mornin', little school girl

How have you been today?

Good mornin' little school girl

How have you been today?

I say I’ll tote your books, I’ll tote your books

Darlin', cause you are goin' my way