22-20 Blues

22-20 Blues - Skip James

Written by：Skip James

Oh Mr. Crest Mr. Crest

How in the world you

Expect for me to rest

Oh Mr. Crest Mr. Crest

How in the world you

Expect for me to rest

You've got my twenty two twenty

Laying up across my breast

Oh if I send for my baby

And she act a fool

And she don't never come

If I send for my baby

She act a fool

And she don't never come

All the doctors in New York City

I declare they can't help her none

You know sometimes she gets unruly

And she act like she just don't wanna do

Sometimes she gets unruly

And she act like she just don't wanna

But I get my twenty two twenty

I cut that woman half in two

Oh your thirty three special

Buddy it's most too light

Your thirty three special

Buddy it's most too light

But my twenty two twenty

Will make ev'rything alright

Ah or your forty four forty

Buddy it'll do very well

Your forty four forty

Buddy it'll do very well

But my twenty two twenty

I declare you it's a burnin' hell

I was stranded on the highway hi

With my twenty two twenty in my

I was standin' on the highway

With my twenty two twenty in my

They got me 'cussed for murder

I declare I never have harmed a man

Lord oh I measured my gun

And it's just a long as my right arm

I measured my gun

And it's just as long as my right

I'm gon' raise me some sand

And back down the road I declare