Lead Belly - Matchbox Blues (July 1943 Version) - Remastered Lyrics

Lyrics Matchbox Blues (July 1943 Version) - Remastered - Lead Belly



Now, this man had a wife
And she thought she hasn't gotten
Ev' dollar that he had
But she was mistakin!
He had lots of money when he married her
But he's sittin' with his head hung down
She walk by an says
'Daddy' says, 'What's the matter with you?'
And here what he told his wife
He said, 'Down here wonderin'
Would a matchbox hold my clothes?
He said, 'Down you're wonderin'
Would a matchbox hold my clothes?
He said, 'Down here wonderin'
Would a matchbox hold my clothes?
She says, 'Daddy, don't be worried like that!'
An he walk back tell her again
Y'all, what he tol' that gal
'I don't wanna be bother
No big trunk on my do'
I don't wanna be by
No big trunk on my do'
Don't wanna be by no
Big trunk on my do'
He sit down and 'gin to think
He said, 'I'm goin' out to my friend's house
An' see what would he do
When his wife packin' up her trunk?
He goes to his friends
Ya'll, here what he said
'Now, what would you do
Baby packin' up her trunk?'
'What would you do
When yo' baby packin' up her trunk?'
'What would you do
When your gal's packin' up her trunk?'
Here's the best advise his friend could give 'em
Get ya half a gallon whiskey
An get on you a big drunk
Get you a half a gallon a whiskey
And get on you a big drunk
Get you a half a gallon a whiskey
And get on you a big drunk
She goes on back, again
An she looks at him
'Lord, have mercy on me
Oh Lord, Lord, have mercy on me
Oh Lord, Lord, have mercy on me'.



Writer(s): Trad Arr John Jackson


Lead Belly - Selected Sides 1934-1948 (Remastered)
Album Selected Sides 1934-1948 (Remastered)
date of release
10-03-2014

1 Henry Ford Blues - Remastered
2 Mr Tom Hughes' Town - Remastered
3 I Got up This Mornin', Had to Get up so Soon - Remastered
4 Matchbox Blues (July 1943 Version) - Remastered
5 Blues I Got Make a Newborn Baby Cry - Remastered
6 Irene (Pt. 1) - Remastered
7 Irene (Pt. 2) - Remastered
8 Angola Blues - Remastered
9 Careless Love - Remastered
10 Ain't Goin' Down to the Well No More - Remastered
11 Frankie and Albert (Remastered)
12 Ella Speed - Remastered
13 Governor Pat Neff - Remastered
14 Which Way Do the Red River Run - Remastered
15 You Don't Know My Mind - Remastered
16 Thirty Days in the Workhouse - Remastered
17 Fort Worth and Dallas Blues - Remastered
18 Death Letter Blues - Remastered
19 Easy Mr Tom - Remastered
20 Becky Dean - Remastered
21 Got a Gal in Town with Her Mouth Chock Full of Gold - Remastered
22 Midnight Special - Remastered
23 The Shreveport Jail - Remastered
24 I Ain't Bothered a Bit (Pt. 1) - Remastered
25 I Ain't Bothered a Bit (Pt. 2) - Remastered
26 Blind Lemon Blues - Remastered
27 The Medicine Man - Remastered
28 Red Cross Sto' - Remastered
29 Fo' Day Worry Blues - Remastered
30 Take Me Back - Remastered
31 Matchbox Blues (Feb. 1935 Version) - Remastered
32 Gwine Dig a Hole to Put the Devil in It - Remastered
33 Don't You Love Me No More - Remastered
34 De Kalb Blues (Remastered)
35 I'm Gonna Hold It in Her While She's Young and Tender - Remastered
36 Dick Licker's Holler - Remastered
37 Shorty George - Remastered
38 Elnora - Remastered
39 Last Night in the Evening - Remastered
40 Something, Something Keeps A-Worryin' Me - Remastered
41 Rock Island Line (A Cappella Version) - Remastered
42 Mama, Did You Bring Me Any Silver (Galls Pole) - Remastered
43 John Henry (A Cappella Version) - Remastered
44 The Bourgeois Blues (Apr. 1939 Version) - Remastered
45 The Boll Weevil - Remastered
46 Leaving Blues (June 1940 Version) - Remastered
47 Alberta (Remastered)
48 Easy Rider - Remastered
49 Worried Blues - Remastered
50 Don't You Love Your Daddy No More - Remastered
51 You Can't Lose-A Me Cholly - Remastered
52 T.B. Blues (Aug. 1940 Version) - Remastered
53 Sail on, Little Girl - Remastered
54 John Hardy (Remastered)
55 Howard Hughes - Remastered
56 Bottle up and Go - Remastered
57 Leaving Blues (Aug. 1940 Version) - Remastered
58 The Gallows Song - Remastered
59 So Doggone Soon - Remastered
60 The Roosevelt Song - Remastered
61 Noted Rider Blues - Remastered
62 Rock Island Line (Remastered)
63 Haul Away, Joe - Remastered
64 T. B. Blues (May 1942 Version) - Remastered
65 Good Morning Blues (1943 Version) - Remastered
66 Bill Brady - Remastered
67 Blind Lemon (Memorial Record) - Remastered
68 Jim Crow Blues - Remastered
69 Jean Harlow - Remastered
70 National Defense Blues - Remastered
71 Children's Blues
72 John Henry (Feb. 1945 Version) - Remastered
73 When a Man's a Long Way from Home - Remastered
74 Laura - Remastered
75 Big Fat Woman - Remastered
76 Borrow Love and Go - Remastered
77 Pigmeat - Remastered
78 New York City - Remastered
79 I'm Leavin' on the Morning Train - Remastered
80 Good Mornin' Blues (1947 Version) - Remastered
81 Tell Me Baby What Was Wrong with You - Remastered
82 John Henry (Oct. 1948 Version) - Remastered
83 It Was Early One Morning (Jail House Blues) - Remastered
84 Goin' Back to Mary (Governor Pat Neff) - Remastered
85 Ain't Gonna Let You Worry My Life No More - Remastered
86 Pretty Papa - Remastered
87 Samuel Hall - Remastered
88 Fannin Street - Remastered
89 Bourgeois Blues (Nov. 1948 Version) - Remastered




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