Packin' Trunk Blues

Song Packin' Trunk Blues
Artist Leadbelly
Album Leadbelly: Important Recordings (1934-1949)

Lyrics

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[00:01.71] Packin' Trunk---Lead Belly
[00:21.39] This song was made about a man and a woman.
[00:25.33] This man wanna marry the woman,
[00:26.58] she didn't want him.
[00:28.52] But she married him anyhow for the money that he had.
[00:32.01] And she thought she got every dollar he had, but she was mistaken.
[00:34.71]
[00:35.97] But she got him pretty well bent, he's sittin' with his head hung down.
[00:39.92] She walked by and she says, "Daddy, what's the matter with you?"
[00:42.86] He looked at her and here's what he said to her.)
[00:46.37] I'm sittin' down here wonderin' would a matchbox hold my clothes
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[00:54.17] I'm sittin' down here wonderin' would a matchbox hold my clothes
[01:00.46] I'm sittin' down here wonderin' would a matchbox hold my clothes
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[01:06.48] (She asks him, says, "Papa, says, what the matter with you?")
[01:10.29] I don't wanna be bothered with no suitcase on my road
[01:15.10]
[01:18.23] I don't wanna be bothered with no suitcase on my road
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[01:24.36] I don't wanna be bothered with no suitcase on my road
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[01:30.24] (He said, "I'm goin' to see my friend and see what he was doin'
[01:33.86] when his wife packin' up her trunk.")
[01:36.18] Ah, what would you do when your baby packin' up her trunk
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[01:43.86] What would you do when your baby packin' up her trunk
[01:49.93] Now what would you do when your baby packin' up her trunk
[01:54.36] (He looked at him and here's what he told him)
[01:57.20] "Get you a half a gallon o' whiskey and get on you a big drunk
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[02:04.82] Get you a half a gallon o' whiskey and get on you a big drunk
[02:11.13] Get you a half a gallon o' whiskey and get on you a big drunk"
[02:15.37]
[02:33.12] (She said, "Daughters, go play the piano please for me a little piece."
[02:37.31] Little girls jumped down and commenced to PLAY/PLAYIN' the piano.)