Lyrics




Well-a Shorty George1, he ain't no friend of mine
Well-a Shorty George, he ain't no friend of mine
He's taken all the women and left the men behind
Well-a Shorty George, he done been here and gone
Yes, Shorty George, he done been here and gone
Lord he left many a poor man a great long way from home
Well my baby caught the Katy, I caught the Santa Fee
Well she caught the Katy, I caught the Santa Fee
Well, you can't quit me, baby, can't you see
Well I went to Galveston, work on the Mallory Line
Went to Galveston, Lord on the Mallory Line
Babe you can't quit me, ain't no use tryin'
Shorty George, travelin' through the land
Shorty George, he's travelin' through the land
Always looking to pick some woman's poor man
When I get back to Dallas, I'm gonna walk and tell
When I get back to Dallas, gonna walk and tell
That the Fort Bend Bottom is a burning hell



Writer(s): Andy Gibson, William Count Basie


Lead Belly - Lead Belly: The Smithsonian Folkways Collection
Album Lead Belly: The Smithsonian Folkways Collection
date of release
24-02-2015

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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