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Dry Well Blues - Charley Patton Lyrics




Way down in Lula1, hard livin' has done hit

Way down in Lula, hard livin' has done hit

Lord, your drought come an' caught us, an' parched up

all the tree



Aw, she stays over in Lula, bid that ol' town goodbye

Stays in Lula, bidding you the town goodbye

'Fore I would come to know the day, oh, the Lula well

was gone dry



Lord, there're citizens around Lula, aw, was doin' very

well

Citizens around Lula, aw, was doin' very well

Now they're in hard luck together, 'cause rain don't

pour nowhere



I ain't got no money and I sure ain't got no hope

I ain't got no money and I sure ain't got no hope

2...come in, furnished all the cotton and crops



Boy, they tell me the country, Lord, it'll make you cry

Lord, country, Lord, it'll make you cry

Most anybody, Lord, hasn't any water in the bayou3



Lord, the Lula womens, Lord, puttin' Lula young mens

down

Lula men, oh, puttin' Lula men down

Lord, you outta been there, Lord, the womens all

leavin' town



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Note 1: at the time he recorded this song, Patton lived

in Lula, Mississippi;

Note 2: this part of the song is so garbled that even

an attempt at a phonetic transcription is doomed to

fail, the poor sound quality of the recording doesn't

help either;

Note 3: if "bayou" is indeed the rhyme word of this

verse, it's pronounced as "by"


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