Shake Sugaree - Elizabeth
Cotten
I have a little song and it
won't take long
And I'll sing it right once
or twice-
Oh Lordy me, didn't I shake
sugaree
Everything I got is in the
pawn.
Everything I got.
Pawned my chair and I pawned
my bed,
and ain't got no place to
lay my head.
Oh Lordy me, didn't I shake
sugaree
Everything I got is in the
pawn
Everything I got.
Grow my tobacco and I spit
my juice-
Well I would raise cain, but
it ain't a bit of use
Oh Lordy me, didn't I shake
sugaree
Everything I got is in the
pawn.
Everything I got.
Pawned my tobacco and I pawned
my pipe,
pawned everything that was
in my sight.
Oh Lordy me, didn't I shake
sugaree
Everything I got is in the
pawn.
Everything I got.
I'm going sailing in a wooden
shoe
looking foir a star I could
tell my troubles to
Oh Lordy me, didn't I shake
sugaree
Everything I got is in the
pawn.
Everything I got.
First star to the right and
it's straight on 'til morn,
I never saw such such night
since I was born.
Oh Lordy me, didn't I shake
sugaree
Everything I got is in the
pawn.
Everything I got.
Have a little secret; I ain't
going to tell,
I'm going to heaven in a brown
pea shell.
Oh Lordy me, didn't I shake
sugaree
Everything I got is in the
pawn.
Everything I got.
Pawned my horse and I pawned
my plow.
pawned everything, even pawned
my old milk cow.
Oh Lordy me, didn't I shake
sugaree
Everything I got is in the
pawn.
Everything I got.
Have a little secret and I
ain't going to teel,
I'm going to heaven and I'm
not going to ....
Oh Lordy me, didn't I shake
sugaree
Everything I got is in the
pawn.
Everything I got.
Haver a little song and it
won't take long
I'll sing it right, sing it
all night long.
Oh Lordy me, didn't I shake
sugaree
Everything I got is in the
pawn. Everything I got.