Snake Mountain Blues Lyrics - Walkabouts

Mr. ten dollar man 

Let me tell you where you're bound 

When you drink your green liquor 

Lord, you'll roll to the ground 

But you come around here 

With your money in your hand 

Tasted my woman 

You'll die where you stand 

Snake Mountain's gonna crumble 

Lord, and fall from the sky 

'Til that woman of mine 

Keeps on telling her lies 

If I'd die Lord, she'd weep 

And she'd weep and she'd mourne 

As soon as I was buried 

Forget I been born 

Well my daddy, he rides on a long holy train 

And the first winds of winter 

Well, I'll see him again 

And it's goodbye to that yellow-headed misery I've known 

Snake Mountain is callin' 

Is callin' me home 

Got the Snake Mountain blues X4 

Got the Snake Mountain blues X4 

*[One verse of the original is left out. 

It goes something like this: 

Well the Snake Mountain blues 

Have got me down low 

I could die in the morning 

And no one would know 

Well, my woman comes 'round 

My body she'd found 

Go down to Dundee 

(And) Have her a time]