You make me think o’ my man.
Say, captain, captain, don’t be so hard on me,
O Lawd, I don’t do nothin’ but wash an’ iron all day.
Say, captain, captain, I can’t work so hard,
O Lawd, I can’t wash an’ iron so hard.
Say, captain, when you call my name,
You make me think, Lawd o’ my man.
Say, captain, I ain’t got no husban’,
Lawd, captain, you got my man.
[73] This song represents the lament of a construction-camp woman. The sentiment of the first four stanzas is found, in a very different form, in the phonograph piece, Death Letter Blues.