Oh Singer

(Myra Smith - Margaret Lewis)

Jeannie C. Riley



Oh singer, sing me an old song, yeah

Oh singer, sing me an old song, sing me an old song about cotton place

Tell me how the good earth feels down in the high white cotton, yeah

'Cause in my life, I'll never get to walk on my knees in the fields.



Oh singer, sing about the railroad

Sing about the coal shovellin' on the L and I rail

Let me get a ride afar with all the people in the depot

'Cause in my life singer, I'll never ride those coal black trains.



Take me back, oh, singer take me back

I'm livin' a life I can't slow down 'cept with a song

And I wanna know how the people make it without big corporations

And I wanna feel how the people live when life is old.



Oh singer, take me to the river

Let me ride the big river boat down to New Orleans

Let me lean up aboard and wash my hands in the Mississippi water

'Cause singer, I can only ride that boat in a song you sing.



Take me back, oh, singer take me back

I'm livin' a life I can't slow down 'cept with a song

And I wanna know how the people make it without big corporations

And I wanna feel how the people live when life is old.



Oh singer sing me an old song, yeah

Oh singer, sing me an old song, sing me an old song about cotton place

Tell me how the good earth feels down in the high white cotton, yeah

'Cause in my life, I'll never get to walk on my knees in the fields.



In the fields...