Transcribed from vocals by Don Redman with McKinney's
Cotton Pickers, recorded Nov. 6, 1929;
From McKinney's
Cotton Pickers, 1929-1930, The Chronological Classics, 625.
When I think of her, how much I
love her,
You know, I get a desperate notion;
That's the way I'm feelin' today.
My heart is breaking 'cause she's
making a plaything out of my devotion,
That's the way I feel today.
And you know, without any warning,
Or at least a word to say,
My gal turned her keys in and she
packed and went away,
What's the use of livin'?
I'll soon be givin' my body up
to the ocean;
'Cause that's the way I feel today.
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