Don't the moon look pretty, shinin' down through the trees? Don't the moon look pretty, shinin' down through the trees? I can see my woman, but she can't see me I'm gonna build my house on Jackson Avenue I'm gonna build my house on Jackson Avenue So I can see everything that my rider do I laid down last night, I was tryin' to take my rest I laid down last night, tried to take my rest Then my mind kept a-ramblin', like the wild geese in the West I ain't got nobody to talk sweet talk to me I ain't got nobody to talk sweet talk to me And I ain't got nobody to jump me up and down I used to have a woman, good as an' in this town I used to have a woman, good as an' in this town Says, she quit me this mornin', don't want me hangin' around