A down-home chant from 1921.
words and music by Anton Lada and Spencer Williams
The sheet music:
Accompaniment:
Lyrics
- Blues have overtaken me
I’m so weary, days are full o’ gloom
Homesickness has got me down in mind
‘Way down in old Arkansas
In old Dixie, my log cabin home
Where the southern folks are good and kind, I find
Chorus
I’m on the right track, I’ve got my trunk packed
And I have asked the good Lord
To take the train back
That’s headin’ south and takin’ me to Dardanelle
Ain’t got no time to lose
I’m tired of roamin’, I’m tired of roamin’
I long to see my mammy and my home in
Old Log Cabinland ‘way down there in the Dell
I’ve got the Arkansas Blues
I’ve got the Arkansas Blues
- Blues just make me weep and cry
I’m so lonesome, don’t know what to do
Miss the good old days that used to be
Oh, my, what a fool am I
To be grievin’, to be feelin’ blue
For my mammy’s waitin’ patiently for me
Sung here by Fred Feild: