Digital Tradition Mirror

San Francisco Bay Blues

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San Francisco Bay Blues
(Jesse Fuller)

I got the blues for my baby
Down beside the San Francisco Bay
Big ocean liner, took her so far away
Well I didn't mean to treat her so bad
She was the best girl I ever had
She said goodbye, gonna make me cry
Gonna make me lay right down and die

Well I ain't got a nickel and I ain't got a lousy dime
If she don't come back I think I'm gonna lose my mind
If she ever comes back to stay
Its gonna be another brand new day
Walking with my baby down beside the San Francisco Bay

Sitting down looking from my back door
Wonder which way to go
Woman I'm so crazy about
She don't love me no more
Think I'm gonna take a freight train
Cause I'm feeling blue
Ride all the way to the end of the line
Thinking, sweet baby, of you

Back in another city
Think I'm gonna go insane
Sounds like I heard my baby
The way she used to call my name
If she ever comes back to stay
Its gonna be another brand new day
Walking with my baby down beside the San Francisco Bay


Recorded by the Weavers, Rooftop Singers
RG

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