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Intro

Well I’m goin’ home (well I’m going home)

Friends sit down (friends sit down)

And tell Ma (and tell ma)

My Mamma (my Mamma)

Friends sit down tell my Ma

I’m going home sit down and tell my Ma

I’m going home sit down and tell my Ma

 And that’s no way for me to get along

Cos’ these low down (these low down)

Women Mama (women Mamma)

They treated your (treated your)

Your poor son wrong (poor son wrong)

A Mamma treated me wrong

The low down women, Mamma, treated your boy so wrong

The low down women, Mamma, done treated your poor son wrong

 And that’s no way for him to get along

They treated me (they treated me)

Like my poor heart (like my poor heart)

Was made of (was made of)

Of rock of stone (of rock of stone)

I’m a made of rock of stone

My old heart was made of rock of stone

My old heart was made of rock of stone

 And that’s no way for me to get along

(Guitar lead over verse 1 chords)

I’m stood on (well I’m stood on)

The road side (the road side)

And I cried alone (I cried alone)

All by myself (all by my self)

Cried alone all by my self

Stood on the road side cried all by my self

I stood on the road side cried all by my self

 And that’s no way for me to get along

I just want some (I just want some)

Train to come along (come along)

And take me

And friends away from here

Friends take me away from here

Train come along and take me away from here

Train come along and take me away from here

 And that’s no way for me to get along

(The song then goes off into an instrumental jam session, really cool but ...

drawn out. I use the following as an optional ending that works for a listening

audience)

 And that’s no way for me to get along

  (End on single strum)

And that’s no way for me to get along