作曲：H Ledbetter+J A Lomax

Honeeey I'm all out and down

Honeeey

I'm broke baby and I ain't got a dime

Every good man gets in hard luck some time

Don't it baby

Don't it baby

Don't it baby

Don't it baby

This man is a long ways from home

And he got a brown skin woman

And he know pay day is comin' pretty soon

And his woman is shoutin' 'cause it's morn' of pay day

And the old mule is hungry and the sun is goin' down

The man he wish't that pay day would move off a little

Further

So he wouldn't have to pay the woman nothin'

I'm going to tell my woman like the Dago told the Jew

You don't want me uh honey I don't want you

Tell me baby

Tell me baby

Honeeey What more you want me to do

Honeeey

Ah the women in the levee shoutin' 'cause it's morn'

Pay day

The men on the levee hollerin' Don't you move your

Knee

Tell me baby

Tell me baby

Tell me baby

Tell me baby

Oh the women on the levee honey holl'in' Woh hah

Gee

The men on the levee holl'in' Don't you murder me

Please baby

Please baby

Please baby

Please baby

Honeeey I'm a long ways from home

Honeeey

I'm down in the bottom skinnin' for Johnny Rye

Puttin' my initials honey on a mule's behind

With my line babe

With my line babe

With my line babe

With my line babe

I swear to God

I know that man wished that woman wouldn't come home

When pay day come

He looked around and 'gan to cry the last time:

Honeeey I'm a long way from you

Honeeey

Yes a brown skin woman make a preacher lay his Bible

Down

A jet black woman make a jackrabbit hug a hound

Won't it baby