If You See My Woman

i wanna leave Mississippi
but i don’t have the money just yet
i need another hundred dollars
and i’ll be on a westbound you can bet
seems like a thousand years
i been hanging round this shack
but when i ease on out
brother i won’t be coming back

and if you see my woman
if you see my woman
just tell her i’m gone

i been mistreated so long
i don’t know what it means to be treated right
i been stumbling through the dark
wondering how my eyes are gonna take to the light
i been living on cupcakes and meat from a can
but that’ll all be changing because i got a plan

and if you see my woman
if you see my woman
just tell her i’m gone

now people i ain’t gonna let that woman
kick me round no more
it won’t be long now
‘fore i step right out of that door
like the magician says,
there ain’t nothing up my sleeve
but you’re gonna see me vanish,
oh yes i’m gonna leave

and if you see my woman
if you see my woman
just tell her i’m gone