Travelling Riverside Blues

[Intro]

Hey

That's right

[Verse 1]

Asked sweet mama, let me be her kid

She said, "You might get hurt if you don't keep it hid"

Well, I, I know my baby if I see her in the dark

I said I know my rider if I see her in the dark

[Verse 2]

Now, I'm going to Rosedale, take my rider by my side

Still barrelhouse, but it's on the riverside, yeah

I know my baby, Lord, I said, is really sloppy drunk

I know my mama, Lord, a brown-skin, but she ain't no plum, uh-huh

See my baby, tell her, tell her hurry home

Had no loving since my baby been gone, yeah

See my baby, tell her hurry on home

I ain't had, Lord, my right mind

Since my rider's been gone

[Verse 3]

Hey, mama says she's my rider

I wanna tell you she's my rider

I know you're mine, she's my rider

She ain't but sixteen, but she's my rider

I'm going to Rosedale, take my rider by my side

Anybody ask you and me met, I keep them satisfied

But, uh, see my baby, tell her, tell her to shape I’m in

Ain't no lovin’, Lord, since you nowhere

[Instrumental Break]

Ah, yeah

My, my, my, my

Ah, won’t you come in my kitchen?

[Verse 4]

She's a kindhearted baby

She studies evil all the time

She's a kindhearted woman

She studies evil all the time

Squeeze my lemon till the juice runs down my leg

Squeeze it so hard I fall right out of bed

If you squeeze my lemon

Till the juice runs down my leg

I wonder if you know what I'm talking about

Oh, but the way that you squeeze it, girl

I swear I'm going to fall right out of bed

Ah, she's a good rider

[Outro]

Hey, yeah

She's my kindhearted lady

I'm going to take my rider by my side, yeah

I said her front teeth are lined with gold

She's got a mortgage on my body, got a lien on my soul

She's my brown-skin sugar plum