C & O Blues Songtext
von Blind Joe Taggart

Did you ever wake up ′tween midnight and day?
Did you ever wake up 'tween midnight and day?
And felt for your rider, she done eased away

Fourteen long years C & O run by my door
Fourteen long years C & O run by my door
My brown told me this mornin′ she didn't want me no more

If you don't want me baby what makes you whine and cry?
If you don′t want me what makes you whine and cry?
Just put that thing on me mama and let a black child die


Which a way, which a way, do the C & O leave your town?
Which a way, which a way, do the C & O leave your town?
She′s goin' west baby, Cabin Creek Junction bound

My mama told me baby, two long years ago
My mama told me two long years ago
If you fool with that little woman, you′ll have nowhere to go

Want all of you men to surely understand
Want all of you men to surely understand
This Alabama woman, she's gonna quit you for another man

I love you baby, tell the whole round world I do
I love you baby, tell the whole round world I do
I love you baby, don′t care what you do