Mike Moxcey ©2005

Roll in My Sweet Baby's Arms

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1. I ain't gonna work down on the railroad.
   I ain't gonna work down on the farm.
   I'm gonna lay around the shack till the mailtrain comes back
   and roll in my sweet baby's arms.
ch: Roll in my sweet baby's arms.
     Roll in my sweet baby's arms.
     I'm gonna lay around the shack till the mailtrain comes back
     and roll in my sweet baby's arms.
2. Where were you last Saturday night
   while I was lying down in jail?
   You were out walking round with another man
   and wouldn't even go my bail.
3. I know your parents don't like me.
   They drove me away from your door.
   If I had my life to live over again,
   I wouldn't go back there any more.
4. Mama is a beauty operator.
   Sister can weave and spin.
   Daddy owns and interest in that old cotton mill,
   he just watches the money roll in.
5. Sometimes there's a change in the ocean.
   Sometimes there's a change in the sea.
   Sometimes there's a change in my own true love
   but there's never been no change in me.
6. Can't see what's the matter with my own true love,
   she's done quit writing to me.
   She must think I don't love her like I use to,
   now ain't that a foolish idea?