Posted on 12/30/2009 7:31:19 PM PST by JoeProBono
Times are getting hard, boys Money's getting scarce If things don't get no better, boys Gonna leave this place
Take my true love by the hand Lead her thru the town Saying good-bye to everyone Good-bye to everyone
Take my bible from the bed Shotgun from the wall Take old Sal and hitch her up The wagon for to haul
Pile the chairs and beds up high Let nothing drag the ground Sal can pull and we can push We're bound to leave this town
Made a crop a year ago It withered to the ground Tried to get some credit But the banker turned me down
But I'm goin' to Californ-i-ay Where everything is green Goin' to have the best ole farm That you have ever seen
A classic photo of Alle May Burroughs . Walker Evans said more with that shot than a novel could .
Have you heard about the trucking companies shutting down? Thats a sign of whats to come. Where will we go? There will be nowhere to go.
by Memphis Minnie
I was born in Louisiana, I was raised in Algiers
And everywhere I been the peoples all say
Ain’t nothing in rambling, either runnin’ ‘round
Well I believe I’ll marry ooowooo Lord and settle down
I first left home I stopped in Tennessee
The peoples all begging “Come and stay with me”
‘Cause ain’t nothing in rambling, either runnin’ ‘round
Well I believe I’ll get me a good man ooowooo Lord and settle down
I was walking through the alley with my hand in my coat
The police start to shoot me thought it was something I stole
You know it ain’t nothing in rambling, either runnin’ ‘round
Well I believe I’ll marry ooowooo Lord and settle down
The peoples on the highway is walking and crying
Some is starving, some is dying
You know it ain’t nothing in rambling, either runnin’ ‘round
Well I believe I’ll get a good man ooowooo Lord and settle down
-Interlude-
You may go to Hollywood and try to get on the screen
But I’m gonna stay right here and eat these old charity beans
‘Cause ain’t nothing in rambling, either runnin’ ‘round
Well I believe I’ll marry ooowooo Lord and settle down
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