Cedartown Georgia

(Mack Vickery - Sammi Smith - Charlie Cobble)



I got a gal in Cedartown Georgia

I used to have to walk nearly three miles to court her

She never had much, just a sharecropper's daughter

But I married her and took her down to New Orleans.



Got a little house in the South French Quarter

Got a job tookin' bales load them on steamboat

I give the seven days pay next day unbroke

When she ain't a sleepin' all day she's a primpin'.



Every evenin' when the sun goes down

She starts a swarmin' on Orleans town

Walkin' into work this mornin' at daybreak

I caught her with the tall long dandy from canebreak.



As she walked right by me

And she looked right through me.



I made up my mind what I'm a gonna do

Eased in the pawnshop and bought a 22.

I watched as the roomclerk gave them a room key

A standin' right outside I could read Room 23.



Tonight I'll put her on a train for Georgia

Gonna be a lotta kin folks squallin' and a grieving

'Cause that Cedartown gal ain't breathing...