I am broke and hungry : ragged and dirty too Mama if I clean up : can I go home with you I am motherless fatherless : sister and brotherless too Reason I'm trying so hard : to make the trip with you You miss me woman : count the days I'm gone I'm going away : to build me a railroad of my own I feel like jumping : through the keyhole in your door If you jump this time baby : you won't jump no more I believe : my good gal have found my black cat bone I can leave here Sunday morning : Monday morning I'm sitting around home I want to show you women : what careless love have done Caused a man like me : steal way away from home Girl if you don't want me : why don't you let me know So I can leave at once : and hunt me somewhere else to go