Levee Camp Moan

This is it
 I had a job on the levee
 I said I had a good looking woman, she lived in Hughes
 I said I had a job on the levee
 Yes I had a good looking woman, she lived in Hughes
 You know that pretty little thing
 She kept me with the government fleet blues
 Oh, on every pay day
 She'd be standing around the landing crying
 Yes, you know on every pay day
 She'd be standing around the landing crying
 She be saying why don't that big boat hurry and
 Bring home that man of mine?
 You know way down the river
 She could hear the big boat when she blow
 I said way down the river
 And she could hear the big boat when she blow
 You know but when that little girl got that check
 She told me she couldn't use me no more
 Well I said little girl, you didn't love me
 Why didn't you tell poor me so?
 Little girl if you didn't love me
 I said how come you didn't tell me so?
 I don't know that you love someone else
 Honey, then you could go
 But after little girl, sitting down in the back door crying
 Aye yeah, I left her sitting in the back door crying
 I said that done run the little thing crazy
 I believe she gon' lose her mind
 But I say honey, when you get lonesome
 I want you to sit right down and write to me
 Yeah, when you get lonesome
 Honey sit down and write to me
 You know I can read your little writing
 Baby, don't care where in this world I'll be
 Oh when in my room and I sit down and I cry
 When in my room I sit down and I cry
 You know I didn't have no cool but I just wasn't satisfied
 Oh what a shame, you know I am not ashamed
 Yeah, aye, not a tiny shame
 You know I am so sorry today that I ever known a little name
 Oh, so hard to love someone that don't love you
 You know it's so hard to love someone that don't love you
 Don't look like it'd be satisfaction
 Don't care what in this world you do