It was a miracle I even got out of Longwood
Who'll build a box for Black Paul?
Ah'm enquirin on behalf
All the dreams you're having
You stole them all from me
I
Albert, he goes West
He crosses the vast indifferent deserts
Of Arizona
He
And no more shall we part
It will no longer be
I've felt you coming, girl, as you drew near
I knew
I stepped into an avalanche
It covered up my soul
When I
Father says it, mother says it
Sister says it, brother says
Look-a look-a yonder [3x]
Well the sun done gone
The captain can't
Last night my kisses were banked in black hair
And in
Bline Lemon Jefferson is a-coming.
Tap tap tappin with his cane.
Bline
It's up in the morning and on the downs
Little white
Up those stone steps I climb
Hail this joyful day's return
Into
Well first you gotta wanna get off
Bad enough to
The Captain's fore-arm like buncht-up rope
with A-N-I-T-A wrigglin free onto
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