Make Me Down A Pallet On Your Floor

Traditional

[F]Make me down a pallet on your [C]floor

[F]Make me down a pallet on your [C]floor

[E]Make me a pallet, [F]down soft and low

[C]Make me down a [G]pallet on your [C]floor

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[F]Up the country in the cold sleet and [C]snow

[F]Up the country in the cold sleet and [C]snow

[E]I’m goin’ up the country, in the [F]cold sleet and snow

[C]No tellin’ how much[G] further I may [C]go

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[F]Make me down a pallet on your [C]floor

[F]Make me down a pallet on your [C]floor

[E]Make me a pallet, [F]down soft and low

[C]Make me down a [G]pallet on your [C]floor

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[F]Way I’m sleeping here, my back and shoulders[C] tire

[F]Way I’m sleeping here, my back and shoulders [C]tire

[E]The way I’m sleeping, [F]my back and shoulders tire

[C]I’ll might turn over [G]and try the other [C]side

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[F]Make me down a pallet on your [C]floor,

[F]Make me down a pallet on your [C]floor,

[E]Make me a pallet,

[F]Down soft and low,

[C]Make me down a [G]pallet on your [C]floor

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[F]Don’t you let my good girl catch you [C]here

[F]Don’t you let my good girl catch you [C]here

[E]Oh she might shoot you, [F]cut and stab you too

[C]No tellin’ what [G]more she might [C]do

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[F]Make me down a pallet on your [C]floor

[F]ÄMake me down a pallet on your [C]floor

[E]Make me a pallet, [F]down soft and low

[C]Make me down a [G]pallet on your [C]floor

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[F]Make it baby close behind your [C]door

[F]Make it baby close behind your [F]door

[E]Make me a pallet, [F]close behind the door

[C]Make it where your [G]good man never [C]goes

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Older version:

[F]Make me down a pallet on your [C]floor

[F]Make me down a pallet on your [C]floor

[E]Make me a pallet, [F]down soft and low

[C]Oh make it so your [G]man he’ll never [C]know

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Don’t ever drive a strange man from your door

Don’t ever drive a strange man from your door

Don’t ever drive a stranger from your door

He may be your best friend you don’t know

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Just take one pillow of your feather bed

Just take one pillow of your feather bed

Just take one pillow, of your feather bed

And put it your lovin’ daddys head

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He’s a country man and he just moved to town

He’s a country man and he just moved to town

He’s a country man, done just moved to town

He’s don’t sold his cotton and he’s just a walkin’ ’round

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Make him down a pallet on your floor

Make him down a pallet on your floor

Just make him down, a pallet on your floor

And send him back so he can raise som more