How Long  - How Long Blues
Music: Leroy Carr, Lyrics: Ann Engeberg - Lead Belly

How long, how long has that eevenin' train been gone?
How long, how long, baby, how long?

Heard the whistle blowin' couldn't see no train
Way down in my heart I had an achin' pain
How long, how long, baby, how long?

I'm sad and lonely all the whole day through
Why don't you write me and give me the news?
You have left me, left me singin' those How Long Blues



      additional verses

If I could holler like a Mountain Jack
I'd go up on the mountain and call my baby back
How long, how long, how long

I can see the green grass growing on the hill
But I ain't seen the green grass on a dollar bill
For so long, so long, baby, so long

If you don't believe I'm sinkin' see what a hole I'm in
If you don't believe me baby, look what a fool I've been
Well, I'm gone, how long, baby, how long

I'm goin' down to Georgia, been up in Tennessee
So look me over, baby, the last you'll see of me
For so long, so long, baby so long

The brook runs into the river, the river runs into the sea
If I don't run into my baby, a train is goin' to run into me
How long, how long, how long



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