[ti:Arkansas] [ar:Henry Thomas] [al:Essential Blues Masters] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Arkansas - Henry Thomas [00:05.31]Oh Roberta round"pack your trunk and go" [00:08.72]Yes he came back home last night [00:12.00]My wife said"Honey I'm done with beans [00:14.82]I'm gonna pass for cream" [00:18.16]Oh my little honey don't you make me go [00:21.13]I'll get a job if you allow me sure [00:24.15]I'll crapshoot yes I will shine [00:27.24]Good little baby just let me work [00:30.04]When you buy chicken all I want is the bone [00:32.79]When you buy beer be satisfied with foam [00:36.11]I'll work both night and day [00:38.57]I'll be careful what I say [00:42.41]Honey What please let me bring my clothes [00:46.89]Back home [00:48.73]Down the track this morning she did stroll [00:54.13]Well a accident her foot got caught in a hole [01:00.31]I'm going to tell you the truth [01:02.96]A natural that poor man [01:05.90]Nice girl (but) dresses turn that railroad track [01:10.02]Is round [01:11.64]I'm going to buy 'em all [01:14.11]Cigarettes and chewing tobacco that I can [01:16.96]A natural rover that a heavy poor man [01:21.96]I am a rambling gambling man I've gambled [01:25.82]In many town [01:27.41]I've rambled this wide world over I rambled [01:31.09]This wide world around [01:32.94]I had my ups and downs through life and bitter [01:36.84]Times I saw [01:38.37]But I never knew what misery was till I left [01:41.96]Old Arkansas [01:43.65]I started out one morning to meet the early [01:47.66]Train [01:48.79]He said"You better work with me I have some [01:52.39]Land to drain [01:54.15]I'll give you fifty cents a day your washing board [01:58.19]And all [01:59.32]And if you'll be a different man for the sake of [02:03.16]Old Arkansas [02:04.66]I worked six months for the rascal Joe Heron [02:07.86]Was his name [02:09.64]He fed me on corn dodger it was hard as any [02:13.61]Rung [02:15.00]My tooth's all got loosened and my the wronged [02:20.00]That was the kind of hash I got for the state [02:23.83]Of old Arkansas [02:25.43]Travelling man I've traveled all around this world [02:30.34]Travelling man I've traveled from land to land [02:35.11]Travelling man I've traveled all around this world [02:39.85]Well it ain't no use riding on through cause [02:42.87]I've traveled this land