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
Bought a little house in the South French Quarter
Got a job hookin bales loadin them on a steamboat
I give her seven days pay next day I'm broke
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
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 twenty two
Watched as the roomclerk gave them a room key
Standin outside I could read Room twenty three
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