Page type: lyric reference
Artist: Blind Lemon Jefferson
Canonical path: /blind-lemon-jefferson/broke-and-hungry
Related lyric paths: 6
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Broke And Hungry
Read Broke And Hungry lyrics by Blind Lemon Jefferson on LyroVerse, with linked artist context and related song paths.
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Broke And Hungry
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I am broke and hungry : ragged and dirty too
Mama if I clean up : can I go home with you
I am motherless fatherless : sister and brotherless too
Reason I'm trying so hard : to make the trip with you
You miss me woman : count the days I'm gone
I'm going away : to build me a railroad of my own
I feel like jumping : through the keyhole in your door
If you jump this time baby : you won't jump no more
I believe : my good gal have found my black cat bone
I can leave here Sunday morning : Monday morning I'm sitting around home
I want to show you women : what careless love have done
Caused a man like me : steal way away from home
Girl if you don't want me : why don't you let me know
So I can leave at once : and hunt me somewhere else to go
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