Big Railroad Blues

Feather Bed - Cannon's Jug Stompers

I remember the time

Just before the war

Colored man used to hunt

Him out chips and straw

But now bless God

Old master's dead

Colored man plumb fool

About feather bed

Eee-hee my gal Nancy

Over the road I'm bound to go

I went uptown goin' to shriek and howl

Think I heard my baby cry

Eee-wee-mmm honey Oh

Lord I'm bound to go

Wee-eee-eee baby Oh

Lord I'm bound to go

I went downtown

Didn't mean no harm

Police grab me right by my arm

Soon I began to pitch

I began to rear

Feel like strollin' in the air

Ooo-woo-ooo baby

Over the road I'm bound to go

I went downtown doing my best

Find the boys that stole the vest

Went on around

About the Court Square

Find the boys that done stole the coat

Hee-hee-eee baby

Oh Lord I'm bound to go

Now I knew Joe Louis was in the stand

Had them law books in his hands

I began to pitch pull out a writ

Began to read to me

Said "Nigger

You been stealing in the first degree "

Eee-eee-eee baby

Over the road I'm bound to go

Ev' old Britt and Moses Brown

Said "I'm going across Cripple Creek

Go into town "

Ooo-ooo-ooo baby

Over the road I'm bound to go