Way out there in the cotton   Sun beatin' down so hard   Sweat rollin' of this shovel   Diggin' in the devil's boneyard   Sure like a cool drink of water   Soft rag to soothe my face   Sure like a woman to talk to in this place      It's a hundred and ten   Hundred and ten in the shade   Goin' way down   Mama won't you carry me      Handle so hot I can't stand it   Might shrivel up and blow away   Noonday sun make you crazy   Least, that's what the old men say      Bottom land hard as a gravestone   Couldn't cut it with an axe   Gonna lay me down right here   And that's a fact      It's a hundred and ten   Hundred and ten in the shade   Goin' way down   Mama won't you carry me      Sometimes late in the evenin'   Everything is quiet and still   I set here and think about leavin'   Lord, I guess I never will   Heartache down in that city   Bright light scares me anyway   Sure like a woman to talk in this place      It's a hundred and ten   Hundred and ten in the shade   Goin' way down   Mama won't you carry me