Dead Shrimp Blues

(album: The Complete Recordings - 1990)

I woke up this morning and all my shrimps was dead and gone
I woke up this morning, ooh, and all my shrimp was dead and gone
I was thinking about you, baby, why you hear me weep and moan

I got dead shrimps here, someone is fishing in my pond
I got dead shrimps here, ooh, someone fishing in my pond
I've served my best bait, baby, and I can't do that no harm1

Everything I do, babe, you got your mouth stuck out
Hole where I used to fish, you got me posted out
Everything I do, you got your mouth stuck out,
At the hole where I used to fish, baby, you've got me posted out

I got dead shrimps here, 'n' someone fishing in my pond
I got dead shrimps here, someone fishing in my pond
Catching my goggle-eye perches, and they barbequing the bone

Now you taken my shrimps, baby, you know you turned me down
I couldn't do nothing, until I got myself unwound
You taken my shrimps, oh, know you turned me down
Babe, I couldn't do nothing, until I got myself unwound