I got a gal in Cedartown Georgia
Used to have to walk nearly three miles to court her
She never had much; just a sharecropper`s daughter
But I married her and took her down to New Orleans, got a little house in the South French Quarter
Got a job hookin` bait an' loadin '˜um on the steamboat
I gave her seven days pay, next day I'm broke
When she ain`t a'sleepin` all day, she`s a primpin`
Every evenin` when the sun goes down, she starts a'swarmin` on Orlean town
Walkin` to work this mornin` at daybreak
Caught her with a tall dark dandy from Canebreak
She walked right by me and she looked right through me
I made up my mind what I`m a gonna do: eased in the pawnshop and bought a 22
I watched as the room clerk gave them a room key
Standin` outside I could read Room 23
Tonight I`ll put her on a train for Georgia
Gonna be a lotta kinfolk squallin` and a'grieving, '˜cause that Cedartown gal ain`t breathing
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