I tell you girls : and I'm going to tell you now

If you don't want me : please don't dog me around

My home ain't here : it's in most any old town
I'm going up on the mountain : and look down in the sea

*Troubling* alligators : keeps doing that shivaree
Tell me friends : ever since that *pull in Jackson 
maid*

Kansas City Missouri : has been her regular trade
??? : that is turning around and around

The churn?wheel knocking : friends I'm Alabama bound
My mama told me : and papa told me too

Say brownskin women son : going to be the death of you
I told mama last night friends : and papa the night 
before

If brownskin women kills me : mama let me go
When I leaves that time mama : I won't be back no more

I ain't coming back here : to worry your papa so
I walked off : and left my mother standing in the snow

She's crying to me son : please son don't you go