Now boys I woke up this morning
My girl was gone
I couldn’t do nothing
But wring my hands and moan
And I walked down the street baby
And couldn’t be satisfied
Then I had the mean old blues
Just too dog gone mean to cry

Now some say she left on the seaboard air line
and some say the W&A (dub and a)
Don’t care what train it was
That carried my girl away
I’m gon’ press my jumper partner
and iron my overall
Now tomorrow night partner
Kiss that midnight cannonball (??)

Now she’d rode for Birmingham
Just ‘bout half past four
At five o’clock I was knocking
on my good girl’s door
She said sit down on my bedside
and tell your mama why you been so long
Said i been to Cincinnati
Where they do the Sally Long

Break


Now when I’d eager, I’d meet mama ??
Sally Long me too
nobody on earth can do the Sally Long like you
cuz mama says I’m crazy
My dad he said I’m wild
Well it makes me no different
I’m somebody’s angel child

(Sally Long: https://books.google.com/books?id=6DRpU7pU5mIC&pg=PA114&lpg=PA114&dq=sally+long+dance&source=bl&ots=_swbyDyGRM&sig=oEr2le372iZZ0wVzau45I8_lfAg&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjNguzk-NrUAhUBxmMKHQhlCgcQ6AEISzAK#v=onepage&q=sally%20long%20dance&f=false)