I’m goin’ back home.

Lord, my gal cryin’ all day,

Lord, my gal cryin’ all day.

Lord, she made a pallet on floor

’Cause she’s feelin’ right bad.

Captain say, “O Shine,

When you go home,

Say, Shine, you comin’ back?”

Yes, captain, O Lord, captain.

Yonder come my girl,