Shake Sugaree - Elizabeth Cotten


    I have a little song and it won't take long
    And I'll sing it right once or twice-
    Oh Lordy me, didn't I shake sugaree
    Everything I got is in the pawn.
    Everything I got.
    Pawned my chair and I pawned my bed,
    and ain't got no place to lay my head.
    Oh Lordy me, didn't I shake sugaree
    Everything I got is in the pawn
    Everything I got.
    Grow my tobacco and I spit my juice-
    Well I would raise cain, but it ain't a bit of use
    Oh Lordy me, didn't I shake sugaree
    Everything I got is in the pawn.
    Everything I got.
    Pawned my tobacco and I pawned my pipe,
    pawned everything that was in my sight.
    Oh Lordy me, didn't I shake sugaree
    Everything I got is in the pawn.
    Everything I got.
    I'm going sailing in a wooden shoe
    looking foir a star I could tell my troubles to
    Oh Lordy me, didn't I shake sugaree
    Everything I got is in the pawn.
    Everything I got.
    First star to the right and it's straight on 'til morn,
    I never saw such such night since I was born.
    Oh Lordy me, didn't I shake sugaree
    Everything I got is in the pawn.
    Everything I got.
    Have a little secret; I ain't going to tell,
    I'm going to heaven in a brown pea shell.
    Oh Lordy me, didn't I shake sugaree
    Everything I got is in the pawn.
    Everything I got.
    Pawned my horse and I pawned my plow.
    pawned everything, even pawned my old milk cow.
    Oh Lordy me, didn't I shake sugaree
    Everything I got is in the pawn.
    Everything I got.
    Have a little secret and I ain't going to teel,
    I'm going to heaven and I'm not going to ....
    Oh Lordy me, didn't I shake sugaree
    Everything I got is in the pawn.
    Everything I got.
    Haver a little song and it won't take long
    I'll sing it right, sing it all night long.
    Oh Lordy me, didn't I shake sugaree
    Everything I got is in the pawn. Everything I got.
     
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