Baby, please don't go   Baby, please don't go   Baby, please don't go   Down to New Orleans   You know I love you so   Baby, please don't go      Baby, your mind done gone   Well, your mind done gone   Well, your mind done gone   Left the county farm   You had the shackles on   Baby, please don't go      For be a dog   For be a dog   For be a dog   To git you way down here   I make you walk the log   Baby, please don't go      Baby, please don't go   Baby, please don't go   Baby, please don't go   Down to New Orleans   You know I love you so   Baby, please don't go      For be a dog   For be a dog   For be a dog   Git you way down here   Make you walk the log   Baby, please don't go      Now how I feel right now   My baby leavin'   On that midnight train   And I'm cryin'      Baby, please don't go   Baby, please don't go   Baby, please don't go   Down to New Orleans   You know I love you so   Baby, please don't go      For be a dog   For be a dog   For be a dog   To git you way down here   I make you walk the log   Baby, please don't go, yeah      Awright