Government Fleet Blues

You know I had a job on the levee,
I had a good looking man down in Hughes
You know I had a job on the levee,
I had a good looking man down in Hughes
But let me tell you people, he kept me with the government fleet blues

You know on every payday I'd be standing at the landing and cryin'
On every payday I'd be standing at the
landing and cryin', oh yeah I'd wring my hand and cry
Saying why don't you people hurry and bring home that man of mine

Soon on the water I heard a voice say that it would rain
Well soon on the water I heard a voice say it would rain
Well should do make a woman blow with all this heart ache and pain

Well you know he did not want me while I was looking in kind
Oh while I was looking in kind
Now some day you gonna want me oh but I will have changed my mind

Now _____ _____ said laying down by herself
I said oh let it down here be herself
Well my man has put it down and gone with somebody else

Well gonna wanna be in trouble when
the good lord sun go down, come on now
I said don't good woman be in tears when the sun, when the sun go down
Cause I don't have a loving soul to throw my arms around

Lord have mercy, well well well
I should do feel low down
You know that's why I'm worried and bothered all the time

I said I ain't gonna be your low down dog no more, no no
I, I ain't gonna be your low down dog no more
You know how I be this time baby, I'm gonna hang ____ by your door

You'd be feeling mighty jealous now
You can trust nobody
Oh I searched the whole world, ain't a good man to be found

You think me dirty but I love him just the same
Oh come on we going to the Delta, we gonna find
I'm gonna find you baby
Oh Lord, lord

You know I had a job on the levee,
I had a good looking man down in Hughes
I had a job on the levee, I had a good looking man down in Hughes
But let me tell you good people,
he kept me with the government fleet blues

Oh no

Play it now, cause she knows it's all for something
Well, you know a woman's got to survive
Can't nobody tell "me" what to do
I got to make my way baby, ain't nobody's business but my own

Good woman got the blues now
That's right
Oh yeah