Hundred And Ten In The Shade

Album: Blue Moon Swamp (1997)
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  • Way out there in the cotton
    Sun beatin' down so hard
    Sweat rollin' of this shovel
    Diggin' in the devil's boneyard
    Sure like a cool drink of water
    Soft rag to soothe my face
    Sure like a woman to talk to in this place

    It's a hundred and ten
    Hundred and ten in the shade
    Goin' way down
    Mama won't you carry me

    Handle so hot I can't stand it
    Might shrivel up and blow away
    Noonday sun make you crazy
    Least, that's what the old men say

    Bottom land hard as a gravestone
    Couldn't cut it with an axe
    Gonna lay me down right here
    And that's a fact

    It's a hundred and ten
    Hundred and ten in the shade
    Goin' way down
    Mama won't you carry me

    Sometimes late in the evenin'
    Everything is quiet and still
    I set here and think about leavin'
    Lord, I guess I never will
    Heartache down in that city
    Bright light scares me anyway
    Sure like a woman to talk in this place

    It's a hundred and ten
    Hundred and ten in the shade
    Goin' way down
    Mama won't you carry me Writer/s: FOGERTY
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  • Dan from Azusa, CaWhy did they call themselves the Fairfield Four? When I saw them with John Fogerty there were five..
    Dan Azusa California
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