| Everybody Leaving Here 2:40 Trk 19
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| Nehemiah Curtis 'Skip' James
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| Skip James — vocal and piano
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| Liner Notes: Unreleased original source info unknown
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| Album: Skip James 'Blues From The Delta'
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| Vanguard Records CD 96 517−2 1998
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| Ev’rybody’s leavin' here
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| Baby, why don’t we go, too?
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| Ev’rybody’s leavin' here
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| Baby, why don’t we go, too?
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| Now you get yo shoulder purse
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| And your go 'way bag
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| Don’t make this, make me mad
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| Ev’rybody’s leavin' here
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| Baby, why don’t we leave, too?
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| You better grab her on time
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| Talkin' 'bout she’s goin' to g’way
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| I’m 'on give you some money
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| Now, you done change yo' mind
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| Ev’rybody’s leavin' here
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| Baby, why don’t we go, too?
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| You know, this old man
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| Done gotten mighty cross
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| He got plenty a-money
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| But he just won’t pay all
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| Ev’rybody’s goin' away from home
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| Why don’t we leave now, too?
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| Yeah, ev’rybody’s leavin' here
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| Why don’t we leave here, too?
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| You know, I work for this man
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| With a free good-will
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| Now, if he don’t pay me
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| He gon' have me to kill
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| Ev’rybody be leavin' here
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| Why don’t we leave here, too?
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| Now, ev’rybody is leavin' here
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| Baby, why don’t we leave, too?
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| Ev’rybody is leavin' here
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| Baby, why don’t we leave, too?
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| Now, here’s some facts
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| You can hang 'em on the wall
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| I don’t care if you don’t leave at all
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| Ev’rybody’s goin' away from here
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| Why don’t we leave here —
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| You know, ev’rybody’s leavin' here
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| Why don’t we leave here, too?
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| Now listen here, woman
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| I have to tell you what you do
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| Give back my money
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| An I’ll be through wit' you
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| Ev’rybody is leavin' here
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| Skipper James, is long gone, too
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| I mean, leavin'
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| Ev’rybody is leavin' here
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| Why don’t we leave here, too?
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| Spoken:
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| 'Now, you did all you could
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| To try to make me blue
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| But I don’t, be a fool wit' you!
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| Ev’rybody is leavin' here
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| Honey, why’d you leave now, too? |