I got a woman that I'm loving, lives in West Helena, Arkansas
I got a woman that I'm loving, lives in West Helena, Arkansas
She buys me long toed shoes, keeps that Brown Mule in my jaw

She gets paid every Friday, along about eleven o'clock
She gets paid every Friday, along about eleven o'clock
Then from on 'til Monday morning, you know the whole town reel and rock

They tell me West Helena, it ain't nothing but a murderers' home
They tell me West Helena, it ain't nothing but a murderers' home
I don't care if it's a graveyard, that's where I'll be before long

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Writer(s): Roosevelt Sykes