Red Cross Blues

Red Cross Blues - Walter Roland

Said me and my good girl talked last night

Me and her talked for hours

She wanted me to go to the red 'cross store

And get a sack of that red 'cross flour

I told her no great Lord said

Woman I sure don't want to go

Say I have to go to hill's 'cause

I got to go to that red 'cross store

Say you know them red 'cross folks

There they sure do treat you mean

Don't want to give you nothin' but

Two three cans of beans

Now I told 'em no great Lord girl

I don't want to go

I said you know I cannot go to hill's

I'm got to go yonder to that red 'cross store

But you know the governor done take it

In charge now said he gon' treat everybody right

He gon' give 'em two cans of beans now

And one little can of tripe

Now I told 'em no great Lord girl

I don't want to go

I think I better wait till

I get a job and go to

Hill's 'cause other than that

I've got to go to that red 'cross store

Say you go up there early in the mornin'

Said he ask you boy how you feel

Gettin' ready to give you a nickel's worth

Of rice and a bag of that boultin' meal

Now I told him no great Lord girl

I don't want to go

Says you know I cannot go to hill's

I'm got to go yonder to that red 'cross store

But you know say I got girl now

Says she gon' get herself a job

She gon' take care of me now while the times is hard

And I told her yes great Lord

Then I won't have to go

I said when you get paid off we'll go to

Hill's I won't have to go to that red 'cross store

But you know say a girl told me this mornin'

That she loved me 'cause I work two days a week

I told her I worked for the red 'cross

Didn't get nothin' but somethin' to eat

She told me no great Lord says

Man I don't want to go

She said

But are you is carryin' me to

Hill's says

I say

I take you to that red 'cross store