Ma baby done told me
Getta th’ quarry and get me some limestone
Ma baby, now, told me
Thass whoa th’ mighty pharaoh told, oh
If ya don’t get it, brother,
Maybe Osiris might get some for ya

So hot in duh desert
Workin’ all day in th’ scorchin’ sun
I said iss mighty hot in diss darn desert
A workin’ man’s life ain’t dat much fun
If ya ain’t th’ old pharaoh ya don’t getta choose
Ya juss sin’ the Nile Delta Blues, oh yeah

Nile Delta Blues

Oh, my gal, meet me in Memphis
Take a late-night train
You will ride along the fields
Of our sweet Tennessee

Every stranger’ll sure wonder
Whose gal’s coming by
With a suitcase full of dresses
And her lovely smile

Come back home, my sleepless beauty
Surely, we’ll get by
There’re strawberries in our garden
And pigs in our sty
We shall dance until the sunrise
With our neighbour folks
Then we’ll lie down on a haystack
Where we’ll cuddle and talk

Oh, my gal, meet me in Memphis
Never mind the rain
You’ll be warm in my embrace
In our cosy place

We shall fish in a deep river
And eat by the fire
My sweet gal from Tennessee
All our hounds and I

Come back home, my sleepless beauty
Surely, we’ll get by
There’re strawberries in our garden
And pigs in our sty
We shall dance until the sunrise
With our neighbour folks
Then we’ll lie down on a haystack
Where we’ll cuddle and talk

Oh, My Gal, Meet Me In Memphis

Cassilda's Song by R.W. Chambers

Along the shore the cloud waves break,
The twin suns sink behind the lake,
The shadows lengthen
In Carcosa

Strange is the night where black stars rise,
And strange moons circle through the skies,
But stranger still is
Lost Carcosa

Songs that the Hyades shall sing,
Where flap the tatters of the King,
Must die unheard in
Dim Carcosa

Song of my soul, my voice is dead,
Die thou, unsung, as tears unshed
Shall dry and die in
Lost Carcosa

John Francis

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