Cherry Ball Blues

Skip James

I love my little cherry ball 
Better than I love myself 
I love my cherry ball
Better than I love myself 
Then if she don't love me
She can't love nobody else 

Cherry ball, she quit me
Quit me in a nice, good way 
Cherry ball, she quit me
Quit me in a nice, good way 
You know, what it take to get her back
I carries it ev'ryday

Now, I left cherry ball standin'
Standin' in the back do' cryin'
Now, I left cherry ball
Standin' in the back do' cryin'
Of course, I feel her condition
But her trouble ain't none a-mine

She's just like a spider
She's hangin' on the wall
She's like a spider
She's hangin' on the wall
You know, she done quit me
She quit me without a cause

Now, when she left me
She left tears in my eye
Now, when she left me
She left tears in my eye
You know, that I love her
But her disposition I do dispise

Now, you can take the Southern
I'm 'on take the Sante Fe
Now, you take the Southern
I'm 'on take the Sante Fe
I'm gon' ride an gon' ramble
'Till cherry ball come back to me 

She got to come on back home to me-ee-ee.