Then for Alabama, Tennessee, Florida, California, Virginia, there were other fragments, besides numerous formal versions.
Alabama, Tennessee,
I wrote my mother letter.
Don’t write back to me,
Reason I tell you, I got de ’fo’-day blues.
I got de Florida blues,
Hey, mama, hey, baby, I got de crazy blues,
Hey, baby, you don’t know my min’,
When you think I’m leavin’, I’m comin’ all the time.
I ain’t got no money,