[00:00.00]Rootin' Ground Hog (Remastered 2015) - Big Joe Williams
[00:10.09]Mama I'm the rooting ground hog
[00:13.97]An I root both nights and days
[00:20.17]Yes I'm the rooting ground hog baby
[00:23.93]And I root both nights and days
[00:29.77]I want some good lookin'
[00:30.94]Mama to come here now
[00:32.97]Pleease to hurry these blues away
[00:39.85]I went home last night babe
[00:42.51]Just about the break-a-day
[00:45.13]I have to grab the pillow
[00:47.01]Where my baby used to lay
[00:48.87]I'm a rooting ground hog
[00:51.73]You might need me some sweet day
[00:58.10]Better look before Joe done lower'd
[01:00.50]Yoo-hoo way I love you be so 'fer away
[01:06.23]Lee's up
[01:06.99]I'm a rooting ground hog
[01:10.18]And I roots ev'rywhere I go
[01:12.43]Play it on me boy play it
[01:15.91]I'm a rooting ground hog babe
[01:19.56]Roots ev'rywhere I go
[01:24.99]I'm tryin' to keep my woman
[01:26.12]Taking my love an
[01:27.79]She handed out candy to Mr So and So
[01:34.79]Let me tell you now woman
[01:36.73]Just before I go
[01:39.01]Gimme back my money
[01:41.06]I'll catch a train and go
[01:42.67]I'm a rooting ground hog
[01:45.99]Yeah an I'll root ev'rywhere I go
[01:51.36]Well my baby had a nerve to tell me
[01:54.33]That she didn't want me no mo
[02:00.24]I'm a leavin' Chicago
[02:03.47]Ain't gonna leave my babe no mo
[02:05.81]Play it on now boys
[02:08.93]I'm leavin' Chicago yoo-ooo
[02:12.31]I ain't gonna leave my babe no mo
[02:17.80]I'm that good rooting ground hog
[02:20.69]I got a home anywhere I go
[02:26.41]Drive over this mo'nin'
[02:29.27]I looked down the line
[02:31.31]Couldn't hear nothin' but my
[02:33.63]Freight train cryin'
[02:34.98]I'm a rooting ground hog
[02:38.19]Roots both nights an days
[02:43.28]I want some good lookin'
[02:44.43]Mama to come 'ere
[02:46.02]Please drives these blues away