Dirty T.B. Blues

Here I lay a crying

Something is on my mind

It's midnight wonder

Where the nurse can be

Ah feel down not a friend in this town

I blew it all alone

Sisters are gone

Brothers are too

No where to call my own

I can't keep from crying

Left alone while I am dying

Yes it may look crazy

For me to be on my knees

But if the lord

He creeps up grapes and t b

Oh lord

Yes he railroaded me

To the sanitarium

It's too late

Too late mother' I've finished my run

This is the way all good women are done

When they got the dirty t b

Yes I run around for months and months

From gin mill to gin mill

To honky tonks

Now it's too late

Yes look what I gone done

I got the dirty t b