Baltimore Blues

Baltimore Blues-Charlie McCoy
Charlie McCoy, vocal and guitar in E position, standard tuning, Joe McCoy, guitar in E position, standard tuning

INTRO

Get that letter, baby, dropped in your back yard? Would come to see you, baby, but your good man got me barred, that's why I'm cryin'
REFRAIN: Oh, baby, don't you want to go?
Honey, back to that city, sweet old Baltimore

Just as sure, baby, one and one is two, gon' have some more money, gonna be up in this world like you, that's why I'm cryin'
REFRAIN: Oh, baby, don't you want to go?
Honey, back to that city, sweet old Baltimore

Askin' all you people, any y'all seen my girl? Got a Spanish complexion and long black curly hair, that's why I'm cryin'
REFRAIN: Oh, baby, don't you want to go?
Honey, back to that city, sweet old Baltimore

Take me back, baby, with my drunken way, don't take me back, baby, I'm gonna stay drunk every day, that's why I'm cryin'
REFRAIN: Oh, baby, don't you want to go?
Honey, back to that city, sweet old Baltimore

Knowed you didn't want me, baby, when you first stepped 'cross my bed, drinkin' your bad whiskey, was talkin' all out your head, that's why I'm cryin'
REFRAIN: Oh, baby, don't you want to go?
Honey, back to that city, sweet old Baltimore

My baby got ways, like a rattlesnake in his quirl, every time she quiver, oh, it's out this world, that's why I'm cryin'
REFRAIN: Oh, baby, don't you want to go?
Honey, back to that city, sweet old Baltimore

CODA

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