Let Me Lay Down in Your Cool Iron Bed - Mississippi Fred McDowell

Recorded: March 1968 Los Angeles, CA.

Producer: Pete Welding

Album: Levee Camp Blues, Testament TCD6007

Transcriber: Awcantor@aol.com

Please let me lay down, darling

Let me lay down in yo cool iron bed

Well, let me lay down, baby

Let me lay down in yo' cool wrought iron bed

Lord, I been drinkin' white lightnin'

It’s-a done gone to my head

Well, I been drinkin' white lightnin', darling

It done gone to my head

Well, I b’lieve to my soul

Yeah, the whiskey bottle 'on kill me dead

Lord, I b’lieve to my soul, baby

This a-whiskey gonna kill me

(guitar)

Lord, I ain’t got nobody, baby

Hold my worry

Lord, I ain’t got nobody

Baby, to hold my worried head

I want you tell me

Baby, what have I done wrong?

Tell me, baby

Honey, what have I done wrong?

(guitar)

Lord, bring me a Christmas present, darling

Baby, I’m in ja-ail, again

Lord, bring me a Christmas present, baby

Baby, I’m in jail again.