Oh, if I should get able, I'm gonna build me a Heaven of my own
So these brown-skin women can gang around my throne
I'm gonna build a-my nest in some brown-skin woman's hair
So when these nights get cold, I'm goin' gon' stay right there
Oh, if I should get lucky, hooo man, should happen to win
I'm going right back home, gon' fix my good girl up again
I'm gonna lay my lonesome head on some southern railroad track
So if my baby ever quit me, I'm sure gonna snatch it back
Babe, I'm troubled, in the blue, and it sure do worry my poor mind
When you hear me whistlin', I'm whistlin' to keep from cryin'
Now, I'm tellin' you, uh sweet baby, I don't love no one but you
But if you tired of me, baby, your daddy have to get tired of you
My good girl, she done got rowdy, and it sure do worry my poor mind
Sometime I feel like livin', sometime I feel like dyin'