Lonesome Road Blues - Sam Collins

I’m walking down that lonesome lane

Hung down my head and cried

I weeped and I cried under a willow tree

Then I faced the deep blue sea

My mama’s dead, papa can’t be found

And my brother’s on the county road

Says, I done-been to that long plank walk

And I’m on my way back home

You did cause me to weep, you did cause me to moan

You did cause me to leave my home

I cried last night and the night before

And I swore not to cry no more

You did cause me to weep, you did cause me to moan

You did cause me to leave my home

I got no money and they call me no honey

I have to weep and moan

In eighteen-hundred in that ninety-nine

He got killed on that streetcar line

They took him down that smoky road

Brought him back on that coolin' board

Says, I been down to that water’s edge

That’s far as I care to go

Then run here, mama, 'n' fall in your daddy’s breast

These blues gonna let me rest

Your fast mail train comin' round the curve

It done killed my little brownie dead

Her head was found in that driver wheel

And her body, it have never been seen