Packing up my duffel1, gonna leave this town
Packing up my duffel, gonna leave this town
And I'm gonna hustle to catch that train southbound
Got the Georgia blues for the plow and hoe2
Got the Georgia blues for the plow and hoe
Walked out my shoes over this ice and snow
Tune up the fiddle, dust off the bow
Tune up the fiddle, dust off the bow
Put on the griddle3, and open up the cabin door
I thought I was going to the north land to stay
I thought I was going to the north land to stay
South is on my mind, my blues won't go away
Potatoes in the ashes, possum4 on the stove
Potatoes in the ashes, possum on the stove
You can have the hash5, but leave it on the clove6
Chicken on the roof, babe, watermelons on the vine7
Chicken on the roof, babe, watermelons on the vine
I'll be glad to get back, to that Georgia gal of mine
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Note 1: duffel, a large cylindrical fabric bag for personal belongings;
Note 2: hoe, an implement with a thin flat blade on a long handle used especially for cultivating, weeding, or loosening the earth around plants;
Note 3: griddle, a flat metal surface or pan on which food is cooked by dry heat;
Note 4: possum or opossum (drawing), the word originates from the Algonquian Indians of Virginia, and means literally white animal. In general any of a family of American marsupials that usually have a pointed snout and a tail adapted for seizing or grasping especially by wrapping around. More specific, a common omnivorous largely nocturnal and mammal, that lives solely or often in trees. They have grayish to blackish fur with white on the cheeks.
Note 5: hash, chopped food, specifically, chopped meat mixed with potatoes and browned;
Note 6: clove, have found several meanings but none seems fitting. 1. - one of the small bulbs (as in garlic) developed in the axils of the scales of a large bulb; 2 - the dried flower bud of a tropical tree of the myrtle family that is used as a spice and is the source of an oil;
Note 7: vine, stem of a plant that requires support and which climbs by tendrils or twining or creeps along the ground (as in the case of watermelons).
