The Chieftains - Country Blues lyrics

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Come all you good, kind people<br />

While I've got money to spend<br />

Tomorrow might be Monday<br />

And I'll neither have a dollar nor a friend<br />

When I've got plenty of money, good people<br />

My friends are all standing around<br />

Just as soon as my pocketbook is empty<br />

Not a friend on this earth can be found<br />

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The last time I seen that dear woman, good people<br />

She had a wine glass in her hand<br />

She's a-drinking down her troubles<br />

With a lowdown, sorry, no good man<br />

My daddy told me a plenty good people<br />

And my momma she told me more<br />

Said son if you don't quit your rowdy ways<br />

You'll have trouble at your door<br />

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All around this old jailhouse this evening, good people<br />

Forty dollars will pay my fine<br />

Corn whiskey has surrounded my body, poor boy<br />

Pretty women look trump in my mind<br />

If I'd a-listened to my momma, good people<br />

I would not be here today<br />

But a-drinking and a-shooting and a-gambling<br />

At home I cannot stay<br />

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Go dig a hole in the meadow, good people<br />

Make it deep in that cold, cold ground<br />

Come gather around all you kind friends<br />

And see this poor rounder go down