Levee Camp Moan

This is it I had a job on the levee I said I had a good looking woman, she lived in Hughes I said I had a job on the levee Yes I had a good looking woman, she lived in Hughes You know that pretty little thing She kept me with the government fleet blues Oh, on every pay day She'd be standing around the landing crying Yes, you know on every pay day She'd be standing around the landing crying She be saying why don't that big boat hurry and Bring home that man of mine? You know way down the river She could hear the big boat when she blow I said way down the river And she could hear the big boat when she blow You know but when that little girl got that check She told me she couldn't use me no more Well I said little girl, you didn't love me Why didn't you tell poor me so? Little girl if you didn't love me I said how come you didn't tell me so? I don't know that you love someone else Honey, then you could go But after little girl, sitting down in the back door crying Aye yeah, I left her sitting in the back door crying I said that done run the little thing crazy I believe she gon' lose her mind But I say honey, when you get lonesome I want you to sit right down and write to me Yeah, when you get lonesome Honey sit down and write to me You know I can read your little writing Baby, don't care where in this world I'll be Oh when in my room and I sit down and I cry When in my room I sit down and I cry You know I didn't have no cool but I just wasn't satisfied Oh what a shame, you know I am not ashamed Yeah, aye, not a tiny shame You know I am so sorry today that I ever known a little name Oh, so hard to love someone that don't love you You know it's so hard to love someone that don't love you Don't look like it'd be satisfaction Don't care what in this world you do