How Long Blues - Big Bill Broonzy

How long, baby how long

Has that evenin', Lord, train been gone?

She been gone so long, ah so long, baby how long?

Some day you gonna be sorry, that you’ve done me wrong

It’s goin' be too late baby, Lord, I declare, Bill will be gone

I be gone so long, now so long, baby now how long?

Standin' at the station, waitin' for a train

Deep down in my heart, baby, I declare, lay an aching pain

You been gone so long, baby so long, baby how long?

I can see the green grass, growing up on the hill

I can’t tell green grass, Lord, from a dollar bill

You been gone so long, ah so long, baby now how long?

I wished I could holler, like a mountain jack

I climb up on a tall mountain, I declare, I call my baby back

She been gone so long, yes so long, baby so long?