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Make Me a Pallet on Your Floor

by Rory Block

on Avalon: A Tribute To Mississippi John Hurt (2013)

Make me down a pallet on your floor
Make me down a pallet on your floor
Well, make it soft and low
So your good girl will never know
Make me down a pallet on your floor

Up the country about twenty miles or more
Up the country by the cold sleet and snow
I'm going up the country
By the cold sleet and slow
No telling how much further I may go

Just make me down
Well, make me down
And make it soft and low
So your good girl will never know
Make me down a pallet on your floor

Well I'm sleeping low, my back and shoulders tire
Way I'm sleeping, my back and shoulders tire
Well I'm sleeping low, my back and shoulders so tire
Gonna turn over and try it on the side

Make me down, oh yeah
Oh, make me down
Make it soft and low
So your girl will never know
Make me down a pallet on your floor

Don't you let my good man catch you here
Don't you let my good man catch you here
'Cause he might shoot you
Might cut and stab you too
Ain't no telling what she might do

Make me down a pallet on your floor
Oh Lord, make me down a pallet on your floor
Well, make it soft and low
So your girl will never know
Make me down a pallet on your floor

Make it down, close behind the door
Make it down, close behind the door
Make me a pallet, close behind the door
Make it where your good girl will never go