Roll in my sweet baby's arms
Roll in my sweet baby's arms
I'll lay around this shack
'Til the mail [bad word] back
An' I'll roll in my sweet baby's arms

I ain't gonna work on the railroad
(You ain't gonna work at all if you can help it!)
No, I ain't gonna work on the farm
I'll lay around this shack
'Til the mail [bad word] back
An' I'll roll in my sweet baby's arms

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My mama was a beauty operator
Sister could sew and could mend
My daddy owned an interest in that old sorghum mill Just-a watchin' all that money roll in

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An' I'll roll in my sweet baby's arms