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Philip Kazee, vocal and banjo - Poor Boy Long Ways from Home

from Survey of Traditional Music, Vol. 4: The Anglo​-​African Exchange by Field Recorders' Collective

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Poor boy, long ways from home (2)
Long ways from home and his mama's house
And he can't bum a freight back home.

Nine hundred miles from home (2)
Ain’t got no money, ain't got no friends
Ain't got no place to go.

Oh darling, sidetrack your man (2)
Sidetrack your man and go with me
Oh darling, sidetrack your man.

Oh darling, you don't love me (2)
You love some old rounder, but you don't love me
Poor boy that works so hard.

Oh darling, you told me a lie (2)
You told me more lies than diamonds in the skies
Oh darling, I'll never marry you.

Oh darling, count the days that I'm gone (2)
Count the days I'm gone for it may be long
Oh darling, count the days I'm gone.

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from Survey of Traditional Music, Vol. 4: The Anglo​-​African Exchange, released August 7, 2023
Recorded by Mark Wilson, Oneida, TN, 7/23/07.

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