I'm A Stranger Here

Brownie McGhee & Sonny Terry (1960)

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	I'm a stranger here, just blow'd in your town, Oh,	yes, I am!

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I'm a	stranger here, just blow'd in your	town.

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Well, be	cause I'm a stranger,	everybody wants to dog me '	round.

I'm gonna write home to daddy to send me my railroad fare, Oh, yes, I am!

I'm gonna write home to dad to send me my railroad fare, Oh, yes, I am!

Well, if he don't send it, I don't mind walkin' down.

I'm goin' back home have to wear out ninetynine pair of shoes, Oh, yes, I am!

I'm goin' back home have to wear out ninetynine pair of shoes, Oh, yes, I am!

When I get back there I won't have these old stranger blues.

Let's walk together, boy

Well, I wonder why people treats the strangers so, Oh, Lordy Lord!

Well, I wonder why people treats the strangers so.

Well, I ain't got no place I just go from door to door.

You know, I'm a stranger here, just blowed in your town; Oh, yes, I am!

Well, I'm a stranger here, just blowed in your town; Oh, yes, I am!

Well, if I askin' for a favor, please don't turn me down.