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Blues Lyrics - Mississippi Sheiks
Bootleggers Blues
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by
recording of early 1930's
from
Stop & Listen (Yazoo 2006)
I got whiskey on my back,
and a sheriff's on my track
I'm gonna make it through this world if I can
I take a walk to go my bail,
brother took off to the county jail
You better make it through the world if you can
If you can
If you can
You better make it through the world if you can
If you want to have to leave home,
you just stick with a bottle of corn
You got to make it through the world if you can
You may think they're doin' you wrong,
but they'll send you to the county farm
You better make it through the world if you can
If you can
If you can
You better make it through the world if you can
When you go out for a load,
the sheriff will stop you on the road
You have to make it through this world if you can
It's a real surprising thing,
that to hear those boys will drink
You better make it through the world if you can
If you can
If you can
You better make it through the world if you can
...they sure got to hear about liquor
Ever since this state went dry
the bootleggers have their shine
They gonna keep out of the way of the jail if they can
If they can
If they can
They gonna keep out of the way of the jail if they can
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Note 1: county farm, a prison farm where convicts had to work of their time. Probably the most famous/notorious among these prison farms was
Parchman Farm
. The state prison in
Parchman
, Mississippi. Parchman was a complex of 15 labor camps covering a large area in Mississippi, a closed society of black men who were offered as "contract" labor to farms, railroads and industries of many sorts, passed around to do labor for the financial benefit of both the contractor and the state who sold them.;
Note 2: Ever since this state went dry, with the Prohibition Act sales and use of liquor was forbidden by law and under penalty;
Note 4: shine, short for moonshine, a home made whiskey made from corn
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