[ti:Mississippi Road] [ar:J.B. Lenoir] [al:Passionate Blues] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Mississippi Road - J.B. Lenoir [00:02.94]Written by:J.B. Lenoir [00:05.88]My moth' an' daddy live on a high hill [00:11.49]Way on that mississippi road [00:20.14]My moth' an' daddy live on a high hill [00:24.85]Way on out that mississippi road [00:33.13]Sometimes I would walk down cry and wonder [00:37.80]'Cause of where one day I must go [00:45.66]My mother daddy work so hard [00:50.68]Until their clothes [00:51.96]Was wet with sweat [00:58.64]My mother daddy work so hard [01:03.43]Until their clothes [01:04.69]Was wet with sweat [01:11.40]And come time from the sell up get paid from [01:14.05]The master [01:15.90]They wouldn't ever come out of debt [01:23.77]Sometime I sit down and wonder [01:28.44]Why I was the [01:29.53]Only child she had [01:36.21]Sometime I sits down and wonder [01:41.32]Why I was the [01:42.39]Only child she had [01:49.20]Sometime I think about the way [01:50.82]She was mistreated [01:53.58]And that's what makes me feel so bad [02:01.68]Before my mother she died [02:06.59]She used to hang her [02:08.19]Head and cry [02:14.65]Before my mother she died [02:19.48]She used to hang her [02:21.28]Head and cry [02:27.67]She said lord have mercy [02:32.50]Have mercy on my little [02:35.18]Child [02:40.40]She said lord have mercy [02:46.77]Have mercy on my little