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Hill Billie Blues

by Uncle Dave Macon

on Hill Billie Blues, Vol. 3 (1989), Uncle Dave Macon (Doxy Collection) (2014)

I am a Billie and I live in the hills
I can whistle and sing like a Whiporwill
Come across the mountain, just down in the holler
To see my little Dony, just as sweet as she can waller

Oh, tell me how long, must I wait?
Lord, I get you now, or Lord I hesitate

Hello sig, what's the matter with the line
I can't talk to that girl of mine
Storm last night blew all the poles down
I can't talk to my Saro Brown

Oh, tell me how long, must I wait?
Lord, I get you now, or Lord I hesitate

As long as a bacon is thirty cents a pound
I'm going to eat a rabbit if I have to run him down
Ice cream cone, T-bone steak
You want to win a women get a Cadillac eight

Oh, tell me how long, must I wait?
Lord, I get you now, or Lord I hesitate

I been in the city and I been in the town
I been in the mountains with the blues falling down
Jumped in the river and I thought I would drown
I spied a redheaded woman and I couldn't go down

Oh, tell me how long, must I wait?
Lord, I get you now, or Lord I hesitate

Whiskey, whiskey, I'm going to let you be
The bone dry law made a Christian out of me
Going to Oklahoma to marry me a squaw
I'll have a big chief for a daddy-in-law

Oh, tell me how long, must I wait?
Lord, I get you now, or Lord I hesitate

Got water in the ocean, there's water in the sea
Since I'm bone dry, it's been water for me
Been on the Southern, the Seaboard too
It takes a Henry Ford for to shake me and you

Oh, tell me how long, must I wait?
Lord, I get you now, or Lord I hesitate

Oh, me and my partner, we both went to bed
The jug of white lightning right under my head
When I woke up the stopper was pulled
My jug it was empty, but my partner was full