The Break I'm Getting

Now, listen here people

Think I'm tired of bein' a bum

For the breaks I'm gettin' now

I done got to be nothin' but a crumb

I've got tired

Of these breaks they givin' me

I'm gon' pack my grip

An I'm going back to Tennessee

Now, I walk all day

Can't find no work at all

I'm broke an' hungry all the winter

And ragg'dy all the fall

I walked all day

My feet got wet n' damp

I've been sufferin' two, three days

From the miss meal cramp

I was barefooted, naked

I was in the ice an snow

With all my yas-yas, out

You could see my big toe

I was barefooted

Didn't have on no shoes

And the rocks, gravel and concrete

Is givin' my soles the blues

An 'fore I'd let winter in St. Louis

Get the best of me

I'd get on a freight train an walk

Back to Memphis,Tennessee

'Cause I've done got tired

Of these breaks they givin' me

I'm gon' pack my grip

An I'm going back to Tennessee

Now other day I woked up

To a big healthy garbage can

And drugs my stiff back on it

Back of a natural man

I says, 'Razzy ham bone

And skanky muffin

Get back all your coffee grounds

Cause you know I ain't bluffin'

An 'fore I'd let winter in let St. Louis

Take advantage of me

I'd go back down south

Where all chumps oughta be

'Cause I've done got tired

Of these breaks they givin' me

I'm gon' pack my grip

And I'm goin' back to Tennessee

Now, I'm 'onna sing this verse

Now, ain't gon' sing any mo'

'Cause I'm gettin' kind-a warm

An you know I've got to go

I love to clown for ya'all

An I love to act a monkey

But I don't wanna get too hot

'Cause I'm scared I'm liable to get a bad cold

'Cause I done got tired

Of these breaks they givin' me

I'm 'onna pack my grip

And I'm goin' back to Tennessee.