Baby, Please Don't Go by Joe Williams' Washboard Blues Singers

Big Joe Williams - Baby, Please Don't Go; Williams, guitar, Spanish tuning, Dad Tracy, fiddle, Chasey Collins, washboard.

Now baby, please don't go

Now baby, please don't go

Baby, please don't go back to New Orleans, and get your cold ice cream

I b'lieve little man done gone

I b'lieve little man's done gone

I b'lieve little man's done gone to the county farm, now, with his long chain on

Turn your lamp down low

You turn your lamp down low

Turn your lamp down low, I cried all night long, now baby, please don't go

I begged you the night before

I begged you night before

Begged you the night before, "Turn your lamp down low", now baby, please don't go

I b'lieve my baby done lied

I b'lieve my baby done lied

I b'lieve my baby she lied, says she didn't have a man, now while I had my time

'Fore I'd be your dog

Now, 'fore I'd be your dog

'Fore I'd be your dog, I'd pack my trunk this morning, baby, go back to Rolling Fork

I b'lieve I'll leave you here

I b'lieve I'll leaves you here

I b'lieve I'll leave you here, 'cause you got me way up here, and you don't feel my care

Now baby, please don't go

Aw baby, please don't go

Now baby, please don't go, back to New Orleans, you know I love you so

I b'lieve you'd kind of leave me here

Gonna leave your daddy here

Gonna leave your daddy here, you got me way down here, and you don't feel my