Wake up Mamaturn your lamp down low
Won't you wake up Mama turn your lamp down low
Do you have the nerve to drive me from your door
I said that gate left Savannah Lord it could not stop
You should have seen that colored fireman when he got that boiler hot
Reach over in the corner mama won't you hand me my travelling shoes
Well lord my god I got me them Statesboro blues
Well my mama died and left me reckless
Said my papa died and left me wild wild wild
Well my mama died and left me reckless
Papa died and left me wild
see I ain't good lookin' but I'm someone's angel child
I said mama tell your papa
Papa tell your sister
Sister tell your uncle
We're goin' up the country
Wouldn't you like to go
We're gonna do one for background
then do two or three more
I said that gate left Savannah lord it could not stop
You should have seen that colored fireman when he got that boiler hot
reach over in the corner mama won't you hand me my travelling shoes
Well lord my god I got me them Statesboro blues
Yeah lord my god I got me them Statesboro blues