Wake up mama
                            turn your lamp down Io-ow
Wake up mama
                            turn your lamp down low
Have you got the nerve to drive Papa McTell from your door?

My mother died and left me reckless,
                    My daddy died and left me wild wild wild
Mother died and left me reckless,
                    Daddy died and left me wild wild wild
Lord I'm not good looking, but I'm some sweet woman's angel child.

She's a mighty mean woman
                                            do me this-a-way
She's a mighty mean woman
                                            do me this-a-way
When I leave this time, pretty mania, I'm going away to stay.

I once loved a woman
                                    better than I'd ever seen
I once loved a woman
                                    better than I'd ever seen
Treated me like I was a king and she was a doggone queen.

                                Sister tell your brother
                                Brother tell your aunt
                                Now auntie tell your uncle
                                Uncle tell my cousin
                                Now cousin tell my friend
Going up the country:
                                    mama, don't you want to go?
May take me a fair brown-I may take one or two more.

Big Eighty left Savannah
                                        lord, it did not stop
You oughta saw that colored fireman when he got that boiler hot
You can
                        reach over in the comer, mania, and hand me my traveling shoes
You know by that I've got them Statesboro blues.

                                Papa-
                                Sister got 'em
                                Auntie got 'em
                                Brother got 'em
                                Friend got 'em
                                I got 'em

I woke up this morning
                                        I had them Statesboro blues
I looked over in the comer: grandma and grandpa had 'em too.