Everybody Leaving Here - Skip James

Everybody Leaving Here 2:40 Trk 19

Nehemiah Curtis 'Skip' James

Skip James — vocal and piano

Liner Notes: Unreleased original source info unknown

Album: Skip James 'Blues From The Delta'

Vanguard Records CD 96 517−2 1998

Ev’rybody’s leavin' here

Baby, why don’t we go, too?

Ev’rybody’s leavin' here

Baby, why don’t we go, too?

Now you get yo shoulder purse

And your go 'way bag

Don’t make this, make me mad

Ev’rybody’s leavin' here

Baby, why don’t we leave, too?

You better grab her on time

Talkin' 'bout she’s goin' to g’way

I’m 'on give you some money

Now, you done change yo' mind

Ev’rybody’s leavin' here

Baby, why don’t we go, too?

You know, this old man

Done gotten mighty cross

He got plenty a-money

But he just won’t pay all

Ev’rybody’s goin' away from home

Why don’t we leave now, too?

Yeah, ev’rybody’s leavin' here

Why don’t we leave here, too?

You know, I work for this man

With a free good-will

Now, if he don’t pay me

He gon' have me to kill

Ev’rybody be leavin' here

Why don’t we leave here, too?

Now, ev’rybody is leavin' here

Baby, why don’t we leave, too?

Ev’rybody is leavin' here

Baby, why don’t we leave, too?

Now, here’s some facts

You can hang 'em on the wall

I don’t care if you don’t leave at all

Ev’rybody’s goin' away from here

Why don’t we leave here —

You know, ev’rybody’s leavin' here

Why don’t we leave here, too?

Now listen here, woman

I have to tell you what you do

Give back my money

An I’ll be through wit' you

Ev’rybody is leavin' here

Skipper James, is long gone, too

I mean, leavin'

Ev’rybody is leavin' here

Why don’t we leave here, too?

Spoken:

'Now, you did all you could

To try to make me blue

But I don’t, be a fool wit' you!

Ev’rybody is leavin' here

Honey, why’d you leave now, too?