| You know I had a job on the levee
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| I had a good looking woman who lived in Hughes
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| I had a job on the levee
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| I had a good looking woman she lived in Hughes
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| You know that pretty little thing
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| She kept me with the government fleet blues
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| You know on every pay day
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| She’d be standing around the landing crying
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| On every pay day
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| She’d be standing around the landing crying
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| She be saying why don’t that big boat hurry and
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| Bring home that man of mine?
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| You know on every pay day
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| She could, she could hear the big boat when she blow
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| Well on every pay day
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| She could hear the big boat when she blow
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| But when I done not get the check
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| She told me she couldn’t use me no more
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| But I said that’s all right big girl
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| Honey, that’s all right for you
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| Yeah, hoo
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| little girl that’s all right for you
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| I say you treat me low down and dirty
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| See, baby, that’s the way you’s do
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| I packed up all my clothes
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| Left her settin' in the back door crying
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| Aye yeah I left her settin' in the back door crying
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| You know that done run the poor girl crazy
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| I believe she gonna lose her mind
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| You know don’t come here honey
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| Throwing up your doggone hands
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| Don’t come here baby
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| I said throwing up your doggone hands
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| You know I, I been your dog
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| Ever since that I been your man
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| But I said baby when you get lonesome
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| Set right down and write to me
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| Yeah -- yeah -- set right down you can write to me
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| You know I can read your little writing baby
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| Don’t care where in this world I’ll be
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| You know love
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| make you do things you don’t want to do
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| You know love
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| make you do things you don’t want to do
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| You know from love sometime
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| Will leave you feeling so sad and so blue
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| Oh, Listen here honey
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| Think about poor me some time
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| Yeah, hoo
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| think about poor me some time
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| You know I feel so bad
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| When you roll across my mind
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| You know if you never no more see me
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| You’ll forever be on my mind
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| If I never no more see you
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| Yeah, you’ll forever be on my mind
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| You know every time I think about you honey
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| I just can’t keep from crying
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| Oh it’s so hard
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| To love when they don’t love you
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| Ah, yeah, yeah, when they don’t love you
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| You can’t do nothing baby when they do not want you
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| But I tell 'em look it here, baby
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| Your little trouble is coming home some day
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| Yeah just like I tell you
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| Your little trouble is coming home some day
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| I said you gonna be sorry
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| That you treated poor me this way |