Georgia Bound
by Blind Arthur Blake recording of probably 1926-1932 from Ragtime Guitar's Foremost Fingerpicker (Yazoo 1068) Packing up my duffel , gonna leave this town Packing up my duffel, gonna leave this town And I'm gonna hustle to catch that train southbound Got the Georgia blues for the plow and hoe Got the Georgia blues for the plow and hoe Walked out my shoes over this ice and snow Tune up the fiddle , dust off the bow Tune up the fiddle, dust off the bow Put on the griddle , and open up the cabin door I thought I was going to the north land to stay I thought I was going to the north land to stay South is on my mind, my blues won't go away Potatoes in the ashes, possum on the stove Potatoes in the ashes, possum on the stove You can have the hash , but leave it on the clove Chicken on the roof, babe, watermelons on the vine Chicken on the roof, babe, watermelons on the vine I'll be glad to get back, to that Georgia gal of mine __________ Note 1: duffel, a large cylindrical fabric bag for personal belongings; Note 2: hoe, an implement with a thin flat blade on a long handle used especially for cultivating, weeding, or loosening the earth around plants; Note 3: griddle, a flat metal surface or pan on which food is cooked by dry heat; Note 4: possum or opossum (drawing) , the word originates from the Algonquian Indians of Virginia, and means literally white animal. In general any of a family of American marsupials that usually have a pointed snout and a tail adapted for seizing or grasping especially by wrapping around. More specific, a common omnivorous largely nocturnal and mammal, that lives solely or often in trees. They have grayish to blackish fur with white on the cheeks. Note 5: hash, chopped food, specifically, chopped meat mixed with potatoes and browned; Note 6: clove, have found several meanings but none seems fitting. 1. - one of the small bulbs (as in garlic) developed in the axils of the scales of a large bulb; 2 - the dried flower bud of a tropical tree of the myrtle family that is used as a spice and is the source of an oil; Note 7: vine, stem of a plant that requires support and which climbs by tendrils or twining or creeps along the ground (as in the case of watermelons).
