How Long, How Long Blues

(album: Back To The Blues - 1963)

How long, how long, has that evening train been gone?
How long, how long, baby how long?

Heard the whistle blowing, couldn't see the train
Way down in my heart I had an aching pain
How long, how long, how long?

If I could holler like a mountain jack
I'd go up on the mountain and call my baby back
I went up on the mountain, looked as far as I could see
The man had my woman and the blues had poor me

I can see the green grass growing on the hill
But I ain't seen the green grass on a dollar bill
I'm going down to Georgia, been up in Tennessee
So look me over baby, last you'll see of me

The brook runs into the river, river runs into the sea
If I don't run into my baby, a train is going to run into me