Oh my baby take me back

Why won't take me back

Listen here mama I'll be good

Make your fire and cut your wood

When I had you you wouldn't do

I got another and I don't want you

Oh go on old joker every time it gets cold

You commence to beggin' me to take you back

You know I don't care anything for you

Why do you worry me so

You treats me like like

You uhh fixin' to leave me now

Baby now I wants to tell you

You ain't been actin' right for the last thirty days

Now and when I come home

After noon my meals is not ready

And you know how I'm a man

Who can't stand such as that

I want to eat when eating time comes

And shu- sugar now listen here

You sure is worrying my mind

I want you to stop that because you gon'

You gonna find everything outdoors

Every evening half past eight

I'm laying around rich man's gate

Workin' and studying thinkin' out the plan

How to get that biscuit out that rich man's hand

Rich man's hand rich man's hand

How to get that biscuit out the rich man's hand

Listen women tell me

What in the world is the matter with you

You is actin' awful funny gal

You actin' plumb naughty

Now listen I'm gonna tell you one thing

I ain't gonna tell you no more

You've gotta use a new system baby

The way you've been actin' the last thirty days

Now if you don't tonight when

You come home you'll find a moon wagon

At your gate and your clothes at the front gate

And the man sittin' up there Lord he won't quit

And honey that's all

You needn't think babe 'cause you're black

I ain't gonna beg you to take me back

Then I went a-walkin' down the line

To see would this woman change her mind

She turned round two or three times

"Take you back in the winter time "