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lightnin' hopkins - go down old hannah lyrics

[chorus]
go down, go down, old hannah
woah lord, don’t you rise no more
go down, go down, hannah
hannah, please don’t rise no more
if i don’t see your face, i don’t believe
poor lightnin’ gonna have to fool with that hoe

[verse 1]
you know i use to have to take my hoe
i used to have to walk a ton row
i had to chip every little piece of grass
that i see begin to grow
and i got mad one morning
chopped everything i see
chopped at a man, i swear
that man turned around and chopped me
[chorus]
go down, go down, hannah
please don’t rise no more
i believe if you don’t rise
poor lightnin’ won’t have to fool with this hoe

[verse 2]
you know i remember times
i was walkin’ a ton row
and everybody you see on the shoulder
they had a hoe
but you know that there
meant you got to chop ’til the sun go down
that’s where you’ll see everybody
choppin’ cotton willow ’round

[verse 3]
they say that if it wasn’t for the sun, we couldn’t see
i said “no, let the sun go down
and the moon shine on me”
that’s a light, it’s lightin’ ride
i’d rather that time than to have it in the daytime
of course it’s better at night
i wouldn’t have to chop no cotton
or neither pull no corn
and then if a mule start runnin’ away at the woods
you could just say “go ‘head on”
[chorus]
go down, old hannah
oh lord, don’t rise no more
go down, go down, old hannah
no, don’t you rise no more
you know poor lightnin’ done got tired
walkin’ a ton row with his hoe

[outro]
you know my hand is sore from the hoe
but i used to chop cotton on branches
and all everywhere
and they call it brazos
but i was in one bottom on a dig
i wasn’t just exactly payin’ attention
but i was a second the bar
heh, and uh, i’m tellin’ you
time is kind of hard to you

- lightnin hopkins lyrics

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