Ain't no more cane on the Brazos
Oh, oh oh oh,
It all been done ground in molasses
Oh, oh oh oh.

Better get your overcoat ready
Well it's comin' up a norther

The cap'n standin' and lookin' and cryin'
Well it's gettin' so cold and my row's behind

Cap'n don't do me like you done po' shine
Whip that bully till he went stone blind

Cap'n cap'n you must be blind
You keep on hollerin' and I'm almost flyin'

One of these mornings, it won't be long
You'll call for me and I'll be gone

If I had a sentence like 99 years
All the dogs on the Brazos won't keep me here

99 years so jumpin' long
To be here rollin' and can't go home

Ought to come on the river in 19-4
You could find a dead man on every turn row

Ought to come on the river in 1910
They was drivin' the women just like the men

Well I look at my old Hannah, she's turnin' red (Old Hannah is the sun)
I look at my partner, he's almost dead

Wake up lifetime, hold up your head
Well you may get a pardon and you may drop dead

Wake up dead man, help me drive my row
Wake up dead man, help me drive my row

Go down old Hannah, don't you rise no more

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