OH BABE IT AIN'T NO LIE

(Elizabeth Cotten)

ELIZABETH COTTEN, Geneva, CH, 1979 (Monique Delley)

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Covered by Bob Dylan at Toad's Place, New Haven, CT, Jan 12, 1990 and during 1997-'98 leg of the "Never-Ending Tour."

Likely source: Jerry Garcia Acoustic Band, Almost Acoustic, Fall 1987.

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ORIGINAL ELIZABETH COTTEN LYRICS
as reprinted in liner notes for "Negro Folk Songs and Tunes," Folkways FG 3526, 1958.

MIKE SEEGER:
An unusual blues sung around the Chapel Hill area...

One old woman, Lord, in this town,
Keeps a-telling her lies on me.
Wish to my soul that old woman would die
Keep a-telling lies on me.

Oh babe it ain't no lie,
Oh babe it ain't no lie,
Oh babe it ain't no lie,
Know this life I'm living is very high.

Been all around this whole round world,
Lord, I just got back today.
Work all the week, hon', and I give it all to you,
Honey baby, what more can I do?

Oh babe it ain't no lie,
Oh babe it ain't no lie,
Oh babe it ain't no lie,
Know this life I'm living is very high.