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Lightnin' Hopkins - Its A Sin To Be Rich, Its A Low-Down Shame To Be Poor
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Lightnin' Hopkins - Bring Me My Shotgun
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Lightnin' Hopkins - Grandma Told Grandpa
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Lightnin' Hopkins - Jake Head Boogie
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Lightnin' Hopkins - Last Night Blues
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Lightnin' Hopkins - Mama Blues
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Lightnin' Hopkins - Smokes Like Lightnin
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Lightnin' Hopkins - Too Many Drivers
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Lightnin' Hopkins - Your Own Fault Baby, To Treat Me The Way You Do
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Lightnin' Hopkins - Blues For My Cookie
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Lightnin' Hopkins - Burnin In L.A.
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Lightnin' Hopkins - Cemetery Blues
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Lightnin' Hopkins - Death Bells
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Lightnin' Hopkins - Don't Keep My Baby Long
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Lightnin' Hopkins - Goin Back Home
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Lightnin' Hopkins - Happy Blues For John Glenn
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Lightnin' Hopkins - Hard To Love A Woman
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Lightnin' Hopkins - Highway Blues
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Lightnin' Hopkins - Katie Mae
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Lightnin' Hopkins - Long Way From Home
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Lightnin' Hopkins - Miss Loretta
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Lightnin' Hopkins - Mojo Hand
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Lightnin' Hopkins - Mr. Charlie
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Lightnin' Hopkins - My Black Name
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Lightnin' Hopkins - My Suggestion
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Lightnin' Hopkins - Never Miss Your Water
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Lightnin' Hopkins - No Education
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Lightnin' Hopkins - Pneumonia Blues
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Lightnin' Hopkins - The Trouble Blues
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Lightnin' Hopkins - Trouble Blues
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Lightnin' Hopkins - Vietnam War
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Lightnin' Hopkins - Where She Used To Lay
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Lightnin' Hopkins - Woke Up This Morning
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Lightnin' Hopkins - Wonder Why
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Lightnin' Hopkins - Abilene
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Lightnin' Hopkins - Aint It Crazy
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Lightnin' Hopkins - Another Fool In Town
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Lightnin' Hopkins - Back Door Friend
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Lightnin' Hopkins - Bad Luck And Trouble
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Lightnin' Hopkins - Bald Headed Woman
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Lightnin' Hopkins - Big Black Cadillac Blues
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Lightnin' Hopkins - Black Cat
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Lightnin' Hopkins - Black Ghost Blues
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Lightnin' Hopkins - Breakfast Time
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Lightnin' Hopkins - California Landslide
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Lightnin' Hopkins - California Showers
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Lightnin' Hopkins - Candy Kitchen
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Lightnin' Hopkins - Catfish Blues
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Lightnin' Hopkins - Coffee Blues
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Lightnin' Hopkins - Contrary Mary
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Lightnin' Hopkins - Conversation Blues
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Lightnin' Hopkins - Darling, Do You Remember Me?
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Lightnin' Hopkins - Don't Think 'Cause You're Pretty
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Lightnin' Hopkins - Everything
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Lightnin' Hopkins - Feel So Bad
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Lightnin' Hopkins - Found My Baby Cryin'
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Lightnin' Hopkins - Fugitive Blues
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Lightnin' Hopkins - Gambler's Blues
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Lightnin' Hopkins - Give Me Back That Wig
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Lightnin' Hopkins - Goin To Dallas To See My Pony Run
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Lightnin' Hopkins - Grievance Blues
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Lightnin' Hopkins - Grosebeck Blues
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Lightnin' Hopkins - Home In The Woods
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Lightnin' Hopkins - I Asked The Bossman
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Lightnin' Hopkins - I Worked Down On The Chaing Gang
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Lightnin' Hopkins - I'll Be Gone
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Lightnin' Hopkins - I'm Coming Home
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Lightnin' Hopkins - I'm Tired Of Trouble
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Lightnin' Hopkins - Jailhouse Blues
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Lightnin' Hopkins - Last Affair
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Lightnin' Hopkins - Life I Used To Live
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Lightnin' Hopkins - Little School Girl
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Lightnin' Hopkins - Lonesome Dog Blues
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Lightnin' Hopkins - Lonesome Graveyard
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Lightnin' Hopkins - Lonesome Home
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Lightnin' Hopkins - Long Way From Texas
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Lightnin' Hopkins - Love Me This Mornin'
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Lightnin' Hopkins - Lovin' Arms
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Lightnin' Hopkins - Mama And Papa Hopkins
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Lightnin' Hopkins - Mama's Baby Child
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Lightnin' Hopkins - Mistreated Blues
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Lightnin' Hopkins - Morning Blues
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Lightnin' Hopkins - My Grandpa Is Old Too
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Lightnin' Hopkins - One Kind Favor I Ask Of You
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Lightnin' Hopkins - Picture On The Wall
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Lightnin' Hopkins - Prison Blues Come Down On Me
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Lightnin' Hopkins - Ride In Your New Automobile
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Lightnin' Hopkins - Rosie Mae
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Lightnin' Hopkins - Sail On Little Girl
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Lightnin' Hopkins - Santa Fe Blues
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Lightnin' Hopkins - Short Haired Woman
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Lightnin' Hopkins - Shotgun Blues
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Lightnin' Hopkins - Some Day Baby
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Lightnin' Hopkins - Stool Pigeon Blues
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Lightnin' Hopkins - Talkin' Some Sense
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Lightnin' Hopkins - That Woman Named Mary
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Lightnin' Hopkins - The Foot Race Is On
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Lightnin' Hopkins - The Howling Wolf
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Lightnin' Hopkins - Tim Moore's Farm
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Lightnin' Hopkins - War News Blues
I Worked Down On The Chaing Gang
Lightnin' Hopkins
I even worked down on that chain gang
Yeah you know I worked on the railroad
Oh boy and I worked down on the chain gang
Yeah they put me in jail when it was raining
Honey that was the best for me
Throwed me in the jail when it was raining
Honey and that is the best for me
You know the jail kept me in [from] the wet
I didn't have no place to stay, don't you know
When I workin' on the chain gang,
ball and chain all around my leg
I was workin' on the chain gang,
ball and chain all around my leg
I said Please don't drive me too hard, I'm an old man
They say We don't pay no attention to the age
He said Who sent you down here, boy
What did you break in this jail for?
Who sent you down here, boy
What did you break in this jail for?
He say You look like a man would kill your mother
(And I believe he did)
Oh boy what did you kill that old woman for?
(A sad time, and I had to cry...)
I said mmmmmmm mister jailer,
will you please sir bring me the key
I said mmmmmmm mister jailer,
will you please sir bring me the key
I says I just want you to open the door
Cause this ain't no place for me
