Now I can hear my black name a-ringing, all up and down the line
Now I can hear my black name a-ringing, all up and down the line
Now I don't believe you love me, woman
I believe I'm just trifling away my time

Well I have the blues before sunrise, with tears standing in my eyes
I have the blues before sunrise, oh, tears standing in my eyes
Now that make me have such a funny feeling, man a feeling I do despise

Now last night I was laying down dreaming
Ah you know what I was dreaming all to myself
Now last night I was laying down dreaming
You know what I was dreaming all to myself
Now I was just saying if my woman didn't love
Me, I hope she ain't in love with nobody else

Oh you know I'm going back down in the
Country, you know where I'm going down
Maybe I'll go back down in Alabama somewhere, you know