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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 - Last Night Blues
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Lightnin' Hopkins - Bring Me My Shotgun
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Lightnin' Hopkins - Death Bells
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Lightnin' Hopkins - Woke Up This Morning
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Lightnin' Hopkins - Bad Luck And Trouble
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Lightnin' Hopkins - Big Black Cadillac Blues
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Lightnin' Hopkins - Black Ghost Blues
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Lightnin' Hopkins - Breakfast Time
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Lightnin' Hopkins - Conversation Blues
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Lightnin' Hopkins - Gambler's Blues
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Lightnin' Hopkins - Mojo Hand
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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 - 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 - Bald Headed Woman
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Lightnin' Hopkins - Black Cat
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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 - 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 - Cemetery Blues
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Lightnin' Hopkins - Coffee Blues
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Lightnin' Hopkins - Contrary Mary
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Lightnin' Hopkins - Darling, Do You Remember Me?
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Lightnin' Hopkins - Devil Is Watching You
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Lightnin' Hopkins - Don't Keep My Baby Long
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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 - Give Me Back That Wig
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Lightnin' Hopkins - Goin Back Home
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Lightnin' Hopkins - Goin To Dallas To See My Pony Run
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Lightnin' Hopkins - Grandma Told Grandpa
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Lightnin' Hopkins - Grievance Blues
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Lightnin' Hopkins - Grosebeck Blues
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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 - 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 - Jake Head Boogie
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Lightnin' Hopkins - Katie Mae
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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 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 Blues
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Lightnin' Hopkins - Mama's Baby Child
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Lightnin' Hopkins - Miss Loretta
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Lightnin' Hopkins - Mistreated Blues
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Lightnin' Hopkins - Morning Blues
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Lightnin' Hopkins - Mr. Charlie
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Lightnin' Hopkins - My Black Name
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Lightnin' Hopkins - My Grandpa Is Old Too
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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 - One Kind Favor I Ask Of You
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Lightnin' Hopkins - Picture On The Wall
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Lightnin' Hopkins - Pneumonia Blues
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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 - Smokes Like Lightnin
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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 - The Trouble Blues
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Lightnin' Hopkins - Tim Moore's Farm
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Lightnin' Hopkins - Too Many Drivers
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Lightnin' Hopkins - Trouble Blues
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Lightnin' Hopkins - War News Blues
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Lightnin' Hopkins - Wonder Why
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Lightnin' Hopkins - Your Own Fault Baby, To Treat Me The Way You Do
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
