Louise, you the sweetest gal I know   Louise, you the sweetest gal I know   Yeah, you made me walk from Chicago, baby,   Down to the Gulf of Mexico      Now, look a-here, Louise   Now, what you tryin' to do?   You tryin' to make me love you   And you love some other man too      Whoa Louise, baby that will never do   Yeah, you know you can't love Big Bill, baby   And love some other man too      Louise, I believe   Somebody been fishin' in my pond   They been catchin' all my perches   Grinding up the bone      Whoa Louise, baby why don't you hurry home?   Yeah you know, you know, Louise,   I ain't had no lovin', not since you been gone      Louise, you know you got ways   Like a rattlesnake and a squirrel   Now, when you start the lovin'   I declare, it's out of this world      Whoa Louise, baby, why don't you hurry home?   Yes, I ain't had no lovin' baby   Not since my Louise been gone      Louise, the big boat's up the river   Now she's on a bag of sand   Now she don't strike deep water   I declare she'll never land      Whoa Louise, baby why don't you hurry home?   Yeah you know, you know Louise   I ain't had no lovin', not since you been gone.