Diggin' My Potatoes

Washboard Sam, Sonny Terry

intro:
[2 bars washboard only]
[2 bars with guitar]

Somebody been diggin' my potatoes, tramplin' down on my vines
Somebody been diggin' my potatoes, tramplin' down on my vines
Now, I'm looking for my baby, where is that no good gal of mine (harmony this line)

Well, I went out town this morning, left my gate unlatched
When I come back home that fool was in my 'tater patch
Yes, he'd been diggin' my potatoes, tramplin' down on my vines  (harmony)
Now, I'm looking for my baby, where is that no good gal of mine (harmony)

My vines, they are all green, my potatoes painted red
Climbed to my roof top, caught that fool in my bed
Yes, he'd been diggin' my potatoes, tramplin' down on my vines  (harmony)
Now, I'm looking for my baby, where is that no good gal of mine (harmony)

solos
[1 verse washboard]
[1 verse instruments]

I tooked up to my window, wished I'd had a gun
Vines all wrapped around him, why you know he's growin' some
Yes, he'd been diggin' my potatoes, tramplin' down on my vines  (harmony)
Now, I'm looking for my baby, where is that no good gal of mine (harmony)

Well, she's powdered up her face, water-waved her hair
She done caught a taxi and she's going to town somewhere
Somebody's diggin' my potatoes, tramplin' down on my vines  (harmony)
Now, I'm looking for my baby, where is that no good gal of mine (harmony)
That's right, I'm looking for my baby, where is that no good gal of mine (harmony)
I said I'm looking for my baby, where is that no good gal of mine (prolonged)