Arkansas Blues

Arkansas Blues - Mildred Bailey/Mildred Bailey Swing Band

Blues have overtaken me

I'm so weary

Days are full of gloom

Homesickness has got me down in mind

Way down in old Arkansas

In old Dixie my log cabin home

Where the southern folks

Are good and kind I find;

I see the right track

I got my trunk packed

And I have asked the good

Lord to take the train back

That's headin' south;

Take me to Dardanelle

Ain't got no time to lose

I'm tired o' roamin

I'm tired o' roamin

I long to see my

Mammy and my home in

Old log cabin land

Way down in the dell

I've got the Arkansas blues

Yes I've got the Arkansas blues

Blues just make me weep and cry

I'm so lonesome

Don't know what to do

Miss the good old

Days that used to be

Oh what a fool am I

To be grievin'

To be feelin' blue

For my mammy's waitin' patiently for me

I'm on the right track

I've got my trunk packed

And I have asked the good

Lord to take the train back

That's headin' south;

Take me to Dardanelle

Ain't got no time to lose

I'm tired o' roamin

I'm tired o' roamin

I long to see my mammy

And my home in

Old log cabin land

Way down in the dell

I've got those Arkansas blues oh-ho

I've got the Arkansas blues