Huddie Ledbetter - Roberta lyrics

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Roberta 3:02 Trk 12

Huddie Ledbetter

Recording: RCA Studio 2 NYC

June 15, 1940, Original Bluebird B8981

Album: Leadbelly Take This Hammer

Transcriber: Awcantor@aol.com

Oh, Roberta

Baby, where you been so long?

Oh, Roberta

Baby, tell me where you been so long?

I been 'cross the country

With my long clothes on

I went down on the river

I sit down on the ground

I went down on the river

I sit down on the ground

I'm gonna stay right here, Lord

'Til Roberta come down

Go, Roberta

Tell me how long, how long?

Yeah-hoo

Tell me how long, how long?

I'm gonna wait for you, baby

I've gotta see ya since you been gone

Spoken:

Now, this woman was an old buddy

She's a good-lookin' woman

She has black wavy hair, but when she straighten it

And she run away from this man

And she got to runnin' on a steamboat, go on a train

But he's been runnin' around for six months tryin' to find her.

And he'd stand on the banks of the river

And ev'ry boat that come along

He'd look up the river and come do some cryin':

Way, de river up, far as I can see

Way-ay, up de river, just as far as I can see

Lord, I thought I find my old time used to be

She was a brown-skin woman

She had black wavy hair

She was a brown-skin woman

She had black wavy hair

And I can't 'subcribe' her

They de most seen anywhere

I'm goin to the station

I'm gonna and talk to the chief police

Yeah-hoo-oo, talk to the chief police

Roberta done quit me

I can't see no peace.

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