Country Blues (Hustling Gamblers) - Dock Boggs

Come all you good time people
While I’ve got money to spend
Tomorrow might be Monday
And I’ll neither have a dollar nor a friend

When I had plenty of money, good people
My friends were all standing around
Just as soon as my pocket book was empty
Not a friend on earth to be found.

Last time I seen my little woman, good people
She had a wine glass in her hand
She was drinking down her troubles
With a low-down sorry man

Oh, my daddy taught me a-plenty, good people
My mama, she taught me more
If I didn’t quit my rowdy ways
Have trouble at my door

I wrote my woman a letter, good people
I told her I’s in jail
She wrote me back an answer
Saying “Honey, I’m a-coming to go your bail”

All around this old jailhouse is [hainted], good people
Forty dollars won’t pay my fine
Corn whiskey has surrounded my body, poor boy
Pretty women is a-troubling my mind

Give me corn bread when I’m hungry, good people
Corn whiskey when I’m dry
Pretty women a-standing around me
Sweet heaven when I die

If I’d a-listened to my mama, good people
I wouldn’t have been here today
But a-drinking and a-shooting and a-gambling
At home I cannot stay

Go dig a hole in the meadow, good people
Go dig a hole in the ground
Come around all you good people
And see this poor rounder go down

When I am dead and buried
My pale face turned to the sun
You can come around and mourn, little woman
And think the way you have done

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Oh you came down, you came down
Outside my bedroom window
In your wedding gown, in your wedding gown
Oh my blood, it went ice cold
I could not say, oh, the things I dare, the things I dare, I wanted
Left alone, oh left alone, among the broken-hearted,
among the broken-hearted, among the broken-hearted


Well, we were young in love, to be wed among the aspen
Oh, but she wanted something more, something more than he could give
So he worked both day and night trying to win and fight
But the poor man has no wealth
So in the morning dawn
Oh, is when she finally left him, when she finally left him, when she finally left him

So they went on to the very spot and day where she would be married
Oh, married another
And he's gonna put his chest, oh he fell a complete old rest
With the idea of taking another
And she pleaded, "Oh father please, spare my life if you could only see how much I care"
But he let the fire go
And in his heart he finally knew she'd finally leave him,
she'd finally leave him, she'd finally leave him
Oh you're cold and you're blind
You feel no consequences

the end

today was the wretched, twisting, curdled end
i thought the absence of something was it
but it
it is not

the end

is
more than absence
the end

is
presence of something else
when what was

is

forced into something new
a synthesis of the unwanted
concrete solidifies into sidewalk
streams freeze
and things fall apart