Now, listen here people
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Think I'm tired of bein' a bum
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For the breaks I'm gettin' now
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I done got to be nothin' but a crumb
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I've got tired
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Of these breaks they givin' me
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I'm gon' pack my grip
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An I'm going back to Tennessee
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Now, I walk all day
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Can't find no work at all
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I'm broke an' hungry all the winter
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And ragg'dy all the fall
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I walked all day
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My feet got wet n' damp
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I've been sufferin' two, three days
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From the miss meal cramp
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I was barefooted, naked
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I was in the ice an snow
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With all my yas-yas, out
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You could see my big toe
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I was barefooted
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Didn't have on no shoes
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And the rocks, gravel and concrete
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Is givin' my soles the blues
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An 'fore I'd let winter in St. Louis
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Get the best of me
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I'd get on a freight train an walk
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Back to Memphis,Tennessee
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'Cause I've done got tired
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Of these breaks they givin' me
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I'm gon' pack my grip
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An I'm going back to Tennessee
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Now other day I woked up
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To a big healthy garbage can
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And drugs my stiff back on it
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Back of a natural man
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I says, 'Razzy ham bone
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And skanky muffin
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Get back all your coffee grounds
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Cause you know I ain't bluffin'
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An 'fore I'd let winter in let St. Louis
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Take advantage of me
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I'd go back down south
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Where all chumps oughta be
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'Cause I've done got tired
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Of these breaks they givin' me
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I'm gon' pack my grip
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And I'm goin' back to Tennessee
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Now, I'm 'onna sing this verse
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Now, ain't gon' sing any mo'
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'Cause I'm gettin' kind-a warm
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An you know I've got to go
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I love to clown for ya'all
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An I love to act a monkey
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But I don't wanna get too hot
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'Cause I'm scared I'm liable to get a bad cold
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'Cause I done got tired
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Of these breaks they givin' me
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I'm 'onna pack my grip
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And I'm goin' back to Tennessee.
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The Break I'm Getting
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Peetie Wheatstraw |