Mississippi Delta Blues lyrics

With friends around and even pals that I know are true Still I'm lonely, homesick and blue There's no one who can cheer me when I'm alone Longing for my Mississippi home Way down in the delta on that Mississippi shore In that muddy water, I long to be once more When night shadows creep about and the whippoorwill call You can hear old mammy shout: Come in here, you all Way down on the levee, strolling in the pale moon light You can see those steamboats and the fields of snowy white That's a feeling I can't lose that muddy water in my shoes When I get that Mississippi Delta blues I long to hear them talk and sing those old melodies Swanee River and Ol' Black Joe That sweet magnolia perfume floating on the breeze Way down south is where I long to go Way down in the delta on that Mississippi shore In that muddy water, I long to be once more When night shadows creep about and the whippoorwill call You can hear old mammy shout: Come in here, you all Way down on the levee, strolling in the pale moon light You can see those steamboats and the fields of snowy white That's a feeling I can't lose that muddy water in my shoes When I get that Mississippi Delta blues