I got a gal in Cedartown Georgia I used to have to walk nearly three miles to court her
She never had much just a sharecropper`s daughter
But I married her and took her down to New Orleans
Got a little house in the South French Quarter
Got a job tookin` bales load them on steamboat
I give the seven days pay next day unbroke
When she ain`t a sleepin` all day she`s a primpin`
Every evenin` when the sun goes down she starts a swarmin` on Orleans town
Walkin` into work this mornin` at daybreak
I caught her with the tall long dandy from canebreak
As she walked right by me and she looked right through me
I made up my mind what I`m a gonna do eased in the pawnshop and bought a 22
I watched as the roomclerk gave them a room key
A standin` right outside I could read Room 23
Tonight I`ll put her on a train for Georgia
Gonna be a lotta kin folks squallin` and a grieving
Cause that Cedartown gal ain`t breathing