Lyrics Governor O.K. Allen - Leadbelly
In
nineteen
hundred
and
thirty
two
Honorable
Governor
O.K.
Allen,
I'm
pleading
to
you.
I
left
my
wife
wringing
her
hands
and
crying,
"Honorable
Governor
O.K.
Allen,
save
that
man
of
mine."
And
the
Honorable
Manager
Himes
looked
over
the
pen,
Told
Governor
O.K.
Allen,
"We've
got
too
many
men."
Governor
O.K.
Allen
began
to
turn
about,
"We've
gotta
make
some
arrangements
to
turn
some
of
them
out."
Then
Honorable
Manager
Himes
says
to
Honorable
Warden
Long,
"We
done
made
some
arrangements
to
let
the
men
go
home."
When
I
looked
in
the
paper,
then
I
was
surprised
When
I
saw
the
number
three
hundred
and
twenty
five.
I
know
my
wife's
gonna
jump
and
shout
When
the
train
rolls
up
and
I
come
stepping
out.
Honorable
Governor
O.K.
Allen,
remember
him
the
rest
of
my
life,
He
studied
up
a
plan
to
send
so
many
men
to
their
wives.
When
you
write
you
a
letter,
please
don't
forget
The
Lieutenant
Governor
Honorable
Mr.
Fournet.
Had
you
Governor
O.K.
Allen,
like
you
got
me,
I
would
wake
up
in
the
morning,
let
you
out
on
reprieve.
1 Irene (Goodnight Irene)
2 The Bourgeois Blues
3 Fannin Street (Mister Tom Hughes Town)
4 The Midnight Special
5 John Henry
6 Black Girl (Where Did You Sleep Last Night)
7 Pick A Bale Of Cotton
8 Take This Hammer
9 Cotton Fields
10 Old Riley
11 Rock Island Line
12 The Gallis Pole
13 Ha-Ha This a Way
14 Sukey Jump
15 Boll Weevil
16 Scottsboro Boys
17 Governor O.K. Allen
18 Governor Pat Neff
19 There's a Man Going Around Taking Names
20 On A Monday
21 You Can't Lose Me Cholly
22 Keep Your Hands Off Her
23 We Shall Be Free (with Woody Guthrie and Cisco Houston)
24 Alabama Bound
25 Almost Day
26 Fiddler's Dram
27 Green Corn
28 Sally Walker
29 Bring Me a Little Water, Silvy
30 Julie Ann Johnson
31 Linin' Track
32 Whoa Back, Buck
33 Shorty George
34 Ham and Eggs
35 Moanin'
36 Out on the Western Plains
37 Noted Rider
38 Meeting at the Building
39 Good, Good, Good (Talking, Preaching) / We Shall Walk Through the Valley
40 Ain't You Glad (The Blood Done Signed My Name)
41 I'm so Glad, I Done Got Over
42 The Hindenburg Disaster
43 Ella Speed
44 Haul Away, Joe
45 Old Man
46 Sweet Jenny Lee
47 Jean Harlow
48 Laura
49 Queen Mary
50 Good Morning Blues
51 Sail On, Little Girl, Sail On
52 Easy Rider
53 Poor Howard
54 Duncan and Brady (Brady)
55 How Long
56 T.B. Blues
57 Jim Crow Blues
58 Pigmeat
59 John Hardy
60 Outskirts of Town
61 4, 5 and 9
62 In the Evening When the Sun Goes Down
63 Red Cross Store Blues
64 Diggin' My Potatoes (I)
65 Blind Lemon
66 When A Man's A Long Way From Home
67 Alberta
68 Excerpt from the Lonesome Train
69 National Defense Blues
70 Hitler Song (Mr. Hitler)
71 Big Fat Woman
72 Been so Long (Bellevue Hospital Blues)
73 Irene (Intro) [Wnyc - Folk Songs of America, Recorded 3/13/1941, Pt. 1]
74 Grey Goose (Wnyc - Folk Songs of America, Recorded 3/13/1941, Pt. 2)
75 Boll Weevil (Wnyc - Folk Songs of America, Recorded 3/13/1941, Pt. 3)
76 Yellow Gal (Wnyc - Folk Songs of America, Recorded 3/13/1941, Pt. 4)
77 Ha-Ha This a Way (Wnyc - Folk Songs of America, Recorded 3/13/1941, Pt. 5)
78 Leaving Blues (Wnyc - Folk Songs of America, Recorded 3/13/1941, Pt. 6)
79 Irene (Outro) [Wnyc - Folk Songs of America, Recorded 3/13/1941, Pt. 7]
80 Irene (Intro) [Wnyc - Folk Songs of America, Recorded 2/6/1941, Pt. 1]
81 Almost Day (Wnyc - Folk Songs of America, Recorded 2/6/1941, Pt. 2)
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