Lonesome Road Blues

I'm walking down that lonesome lane
 Hung down my head and cried
 I weeped and I cried under a willow tree
 Then I faced the deep blue sea
 My mama's dead, papa can't be found
 And my brother's on the county road
 Says, I done been to that long plank walk
 And I'm on my way back home
 You did cause me to weep, you did cause me to moan
 You did cause me to leave my home
 I cried last night and the night before
 And I swore not to cry no more
 You did cause me to weep, you did cause me to moan
 You did cause me to leave my home
 I got no money and they call me no honey
 I have to weep and moan
 In 1800 in the '99
 He got killed on that streetcar line
 They took him down that smoky road
 Brought him back on that coolin' board
 Says, I been down to that water's edge
 That's far as I care to go
 Then run here, mama, and fall in your daddy's breast
 These blues gonna let me rest
 Your fast mail train comin' 'round the curve
 It done killed my little brownie dead
 Her head was found in that driver wheel
 And her body, it have never been seen