Poor Boy

Bukka White

Open D, Cross-note

Me and poor boy we were travellin’

Travellin’ a long way from home

Me and poor boy we got forlorn

We got pulled off and fell a’bound

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My dear mother she got worried

When we were down on that lil’ farm

My mother she called that farm

And they told her they hadn’t seen felled abound

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My dear mother got on the phone

And she called down on that little farm

When my mother talked to the sargeant

He wasn’t no have mercy on that bill

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Well the sargeant told my mother

It would take two hundred dollar bills

We didn’t have no one

To come-and-go dollar bill

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Poor boy he got worried

Poor boy cus and breakin’ down

I said “poor boy don’t worry

Our mother gonna get us out of prison bount”

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Oh my mother she got worried

She couldn’t get them two hundred dollar bills

So early one Sunday morning

My mother she came down on that farm

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Well the sargeant met my dear mother

He met her at the gate

My mother she told the sargeant

She didn’t even have no two hundred dollar bills

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Well my mother she kneeled down

She kneeled down on her knees

Oh my mother told the sargeant

Would he please, sir, have mercy on poor me

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My dear mother she started cryin’

Old sargeant he broke down

He said “feed boy please promise me

You will not hobo on my train.”

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I said listen my brother poor boy

Don’t be worried and cryin’

Somebody, somebody somewhere

Gonna get us out of prison-bound.