Cherry Picking Blues - Ida Cox

Come here pretty papa

Sit down on your mama's knee

Come here pretty papa

Sit down on your mama's knee

I don't want to tell you

How you have mistreated me

You leave me after supper

And you don't come home till morn'

You leave me after supper

And you don't come home till morn'

You'll come home

Some morning

And find your cherry tree gone

You can't slip back

To your brownskin

I mean your used to be

You can't slip back

To your brownskin

I mean your used to be

I know you're crazy 'bout your cherry pie

But you can't two time me

I've got my trunk all packed

And I'm going to leave this town

I've got my trunk all packed

And I'm going to leave this town

Goodbye little papa

Another man

Has cut your cherry tree down