Take, oh, take me, take me back home
My sister’s cryin’ back home
If I die long way from home
My home ain’t here an’ I ain’t got to stay
O Lord, captain, won’t you let me go home
Daddy sick, mammy dead,
Goin’ back South, dat’s where I’m bound.
Every mail day I gits letter from my mother,
Sayin’, “Son, son, come home.”
I’m one hundred miles from home