Traveling Riverside Blues - Robert Johnson, george, Victor

If your man get personal, want you to have your fun

If your man get personal, want you to have your fun

Best come on back to Friars Point1, mama, and barrelhouse all night long

I got women’s in Vicksburg, clean on into Tennessee

I got women’s in Vicksburg, clean on into Tennessee

But my Friars Point1 rider, now, hops all over me

I ain’t gon' to state no color but her, front teeth crowned with gold

I ain’t gon' to state no color but her, front teeth is crowned with gold

She got a mortgage on my body, now, and a lien2 on my soul

Lord, I’m goin' to Rosedale3, gon' take my rider by my side

Lord, I’m goin' to Rosedale3, gon' take my rider by my side

We can still barrelhouse baby, on the riverside

Now you can squeeze my lemon 'til the juice run down my…

(spoken: 'til the juice rune down my leg, baby, you know what I’m talkin' about)

You can squeeze my lemon 'til the juice run down my leg

(spoken: That’s what I’m talkin' 'bout, now)

But I’m goin' back to Friars Point1, if I be rockin’to my head

Note 1: Friars Town is a small town in a bend of the Levee river, Mississippi

Note 2: a lien is a charge upon real or personal property for the satisfaction

of

some debt

Note 3: Rosedale is further south, some twenty miles west of Cleveland,

Mississippi