| Good Road Camp Blues 3:49 Trk 20
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| Nehemiah Curtis 'Skip' James
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| Skip James — vocal, guitar and piano
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| Album: Blues From The Delta
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| From Vanguard 'Devil Got My Woman' album 1968
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| Vanguard Records CD 96 517−2 1998
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| Note: hyphen = unsung word
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| Captain, captain
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| Captain, captain
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| Befo' I drive, I drive old Slim Bill
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| Captain, captain
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| Captain, captain
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| Befo' I drive old Slim Bill
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| Lord, I’ll walk this good road
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| 'Till my ankle, my ankles swell
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| You know, I’m so tired
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| I’m so tired
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| This red rice and salmon
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| Lord, an these black-eyed peas
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| You know I’m so tired
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| I’m so tired of red rice
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| Salmons and these black-eye'd peas
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| Captain, an these old hard-tack biscuits
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| I declare, these killin' po' me
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| Are you goin' on yonder, yonder?
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| And you tell that big-hat man
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| Oh, if you go down yonder, down yonder
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| And you tell that big-hat man
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| Tell 'em I’m a-so tired a-these black molasses
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| Wit' that teddy bear standin' on a cane
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| Well, down in L’ousiana
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| Way down yonder behind the sun
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| Well, down yonder in L’ousiana
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| Way down behind the sun
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| Seem like to me that’s where all-a my
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| My trouble first begun
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| Now, some come here for ninety
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| And some come here for ninety-nine
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| Lord, some men come for ninety
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| Some come here for ninety-nine
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| But Lord, I come here to stay
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| Just as long as the sun shine
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| Now, captain, captain, ooh
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| A-what's the matter that I can’t see?
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| Captain, captain, captain
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| What’s the matter I can’t —
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| I got a lifetime sentence, here
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| Please, please be light on me |