Huddie Ledbetter - Roberta текст песни

Roberta 3:02 Trk 12
Huddie Ledbetter
Recording: RCA Studio 2 NYC
June 15, 1940, Original Bluebird B8981
Album: Leadbelly Take This Hammer
Transcriber: Awcantor@aol.com




Oh, Roberta
Baby, where you been so long?
Oh, Roberta
Baby, tell me where you been so long?
I been 'cross the country
With my long clothes on

I went down on the river
I sit down on the ground
I went down on the river
I sit down on the ground
I'm gonna stay right here, Lord

'Til Roberta come down

Go, Roberta
Tell me how long, how long?
Yeah-hoo
Tell me how long, how long?
I'm gonna wait for you, baby
I've gotta see ya since you been gone

Spoken:

Now, this woman was an old buddy
She's a good-lookin' woman
She has black wavy hair, but when she straighten it

And she run away from this man
And she got to runnin' on a steamboat, go on a train
But he's been runnin' around for six months tryin' to find her.
And he'd stand on the banks of the river
And ev'ry boat that come along
He'd look up the river and come do some cryin':

Way, de river up, far as I can see
Way-ay, up de river, just as far as I can see
Lord, I thought I find my old time used to be

She was a brown-skin woman
She had black wavy hair
She was a brown-skin woman
She had black wavy hair
And I can't 'subcribe' her
They de most seen anywhere

I'm goin to the station
I'm gonna and talk to the chief police
Yeah-hoo-oo, talk to the chief police
Roberta done quit me
I can't see no peace.

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