B & O Blues #2 - Blind Willie McTell

Artist: Blind Willie McTell
Album: The Definitive Blind Willie McTell (CD 2)
Label: Sony
Year: 1994
Song Title: B & O Blues #2
Duration: 03:02
Track #: 14


B & O Blues #2

I'm gon' grab me a train, I'm goin' back to Baltimore,
Well I'm gon' grab me a train, goin' back to Baltimore,
I'm gonna find my baby, 'cause she rode that B & O.

I'm goin' to act like a rambler and I can't stay home no more,
I'm goin' to act like a rambler and I can't stay home no more,
'Cause the gal I love she rode that B & O.

She said: "Daddy, I'm leavin' and I can't come back no more",
She said: "Daddy, I'm leavin' and I can't come back no more",
And if she don't come back, I'm goin' down in Ohio.

(Ah, play it now, you'd feel bad when she should leave you too…
Trouble, boy, trouble.)

I never would have thought that my baby would treat me so,
Well, I never would have thought that my baby would treat me so,
Ah, she broke my heart, when she grabbed that B & O.

Now she wants to come back and I can't use that child no more (not at all),
Now she wants to come back and I can't use that child no more,
'Cause I got another hot mama and she lives in Baltimore.

(Play it a little bit now boy…stand by you gonna hear it again, next year...)