Cedartown, Georgia

I got a gal in Cedartown Georgia

I used to have to walk nearly three miles to court her

She never had much, just a sharecropper's daughter

But I married her and took her down to New Orleans.

Bought a little house in the South French Quarter

Got a job hookin' bales, loadin' them on a steamboat

I give her seven days pay next day I'm broke

When she ain't a sleepin' all day she's a primpin'.

Every evenin' when the sun goes down

She starts a swarmin' on Orleans town

Walkin' into work this mornin' at daybreak

I caught her with the tall long dandy from canebreak.

She walked right by me and she looked right through me.

I made up my mind what I'm a gonna do

Eased in the pawnshop and bought a 22.

Watched as the roomclerk gave them a room key

Standin' outside I could read Room 23.

Tonight I'll put her on a train for Georgia

Gonna be a lotta kin folks squallin' and a grieving

'Cause that Cedartown gal ain't breathing...