I woke up this morning What you reckon was on my mind My brown told me to leave but I told her I just wasn't gwine Woke up singing this morning When the clock was striking four All I heard my baby crying daddy please don't go Show me the train You call the Cannonball That's the train don't stop a'tall My momma told me When I was but a child That there's good times now but terrible after a while If you ride the Seaboard I ride the L & N Momma that's the train'll sure carry me in the wind My momma told me When I was four years old You gonna be around a woman god bless your soul Lord a mean old fireman A cruel old engineer Took my good girl and left me standing here I'm gon' buy me a manger I wanna carry it to the sky So I can see my baby when she comes passing by Well I took this brown skinned woman From my best friend And that rascal got lucky and stole her back again I woke up this morning Ah with the rising sun Said go away day and let tomorrow come Singing my blues And I sing 'em when I please I sing these blues to give my poor heart ease Sometime I feel like I done throw it away Take this old guitar and whoop these blues all day You must get your basket brownie And make it into them woods If you don't find an old apple you must make black berries good