WAYLON JENNINGS - CEDARTOWN GEORGIA lyrics

rate me

I got a gal in Cedartown Georgia

Used to have to walk nearly three miles to court her

She never had much; just a sharecropper's daughter

But I married her and took her down to New Orleans, got a little house in the South French Quarter

Got a job hookin' bait an' loadin ‘um on the steamboat

I gave her seven days pay, next day I'm broke

When she ain't a'sleepin' all day, she's a primpin'

Every evenin' when the sun goes down, she starts a'swarmin' on Orlean town

Walkin' to work this mornin' at daybreak

Caught her with a tall dark dandy from Canebreak

She walked right by me and she looked right through me

I made up my mind what I'm a gonna do: eased in the pawnshop and bought a 22

I watched as the room clerk gave them a room key

Standin' outside I could read Room 23

Tonight I'll put her on a train for Georgia

Gonna be a lotta kinfolk squallin' and a'grieving, ‘cause that Cedartown gal ain't breathing