I Will Turn Your Money Green

Album: Furry Lewis (1928)
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  • When I was in Missouri
    Would not let me be
    Wouldn't rest content
    'Till I came to Tennessee

    If you follow me baby
    I'll turn your money green
    I show you more money
    Rockerfeller ever seen

    If the river was whiskey
    Baby and I was a duck
    I'd dive to the bottom
    Lord and I'd never come up

    Lord the woman I hate
    I see her every day
    But the woman I love
    She's so far away

    Talk about *sweetheart*
    I declare I'm a honest man
    Give my woman so many dollars
    It broke her apron string

    All she give me was trouble
    I'm troubled all the time
    I been troubled so long
    Trouble don't worry my mind

    I been down so long
    It seem like up to me
    Woman I love
    She done quit poor me

    What's the need of me hollering
    What's the need of me crying
    Woman I love
    She don't pay me no mind Writer/s: FURRY LEWIS
    Publisher: Peermusic Publishing
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

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  • Anonymous"turn your money green" I.e., "You just making pocket change, Baby. Hang around with me, you'll be making folding money, greenbacks."
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