Wake up mama, turn your lamp down low
  Wake up mama, turn your lamp down low
  Have you got the nerve to drive papa McTell from your door
  My mother died and left me reckless, my daddy died and
  left me wild, wild, wild
  Mother died and left me reckless, daddy died and left me
  wild, wild, wild
  No, I'm not good lookin', I'm some sweet woman's angel child
  You're a mighty mean woman, to do me this a-way
  You're a mighty mean woman, to do me this a-way
  Going to leave this town, pretty mama, going away to stay
  I once loved a woman, better than I ever seen
  I once loved a woman, better than I ever seen
  Treat me like I was a king and she was a doggone queen
  Sister, tell your brother, brother tell your auntie,
  auntie, tell your uncle, uncle tell my cousin, cousin
  tell my friend
  Goin' up the country, mama, don't you want to go?
  May take me a fair brown, may take me one or two more
  Big Eighty1 left Savannah, Lord, and did not stop
  You ought to saw that colored fireman when he got that
  boiler hot
  Reach over in the corner, hand me my travelin' shoes
  You know by that, I got them Statesboro blues
  Sister got 'em, daddy got 'em
  Brother got 'em, mama got 'em
  Woke up this morning, we had them Statesboro blues
  I looked over in the corner, grandpa and grandma had 'em too