When you were down : sick down on your bed
Know bobby brought you your medicine : also brought you
bread
You is up today : looking good again
I knocked on your door : wouldn't even let me in
But the sun going to shine : once more in my back door
It's true I love you sweet mama : but you can't mistreat
me no more
I was standing at the terminal : arms fold up and cried
Crying I wonder what train : taking that brown of mine
And I run to the telephone : took the receiver down
I said hello Central : give me Doctor Brown
My baby looks for me : at any old hour at night
No matter when I go there : she's never turning off her
light
Mmm : Lord Lord Lord
You womens in Atlanta : treat your men like your dog
Before this time brown : maybe another year
I'll be up the country : drinking that cool can beer