| Baby, how long | |
| Baby how long | |
| Have that ev'nin train been gone | |
| Baby, how long, how long, baby how long | |
| Hear it was so | |
| Can't see no train | |
| But deep in my heart I feel and achin' pain | |
| And that's a-how long, how long, babe how long | |
| Into the station | |
| Look up at the board | |
| Next train around | |
| Strawberry Road | |
| How long, how, woo, baby how long | |
| 'make it wail ev'rybody' 'yeah, so sweet' | |
| Down atta station | |
| With my head hung down | |
| Lookin' at my sugar, when she leave this town | |
| Baby, how long, how long, baby how long | |
| I ain't got no money | |
| Buy a ticket on a train | |
| But I'll ride de blinds, baby | |
| Be back home, again | |
| Well, how long, how long, baby how long | |
| See me comin' | |
| Gon get some plow work | |
| *I'll cut your liver | |
| Plug your heartache | |
| Been so long, woo swoo, baby how long | |
| 'Sonny, wail about it' | |
| Feelin' bad, I'm lookin' sad | |
| Thinkin' bout the bad luck, Sonny | |
| I once have had | |
| But how long, how long, honey how long | |
| See the green grass, growin' on a hill | |
| Never seen no green grass on a dollar bill | |
| How long, how long, baby how long | |
| Lower you, baby | |
| To a hollow tree | |
| Way you treat me | |
| Come back to you | |
| Hoo, low, hoo, woo, baby gone | |
| 'Make it wail ev'rybody, now' | |
| Feel so disgusted, I feel so blue | |
| Sometimes Sonny, I don't know | |
| What in the world I'm gonna do | |
| Now, how long, how long, yeah how long | |
| See that little house, sitting on the hill | |
| You don't love me, goin try another who will | |
| How long, how long baby, how long | |
| See my baby, tell her I'll be runnin' home | |
| I've been worried, ever since she been gone | |
| How long, how, woo, baby how long | |
| 'Love to see ya' | |
| 'Play for me, now' |