Lyrics
Be my woman gal I’ll
Be your Man (x3)
Everydays Sunday dollar in your hand
In your hand lordy, in your hand
Everydays Sunday dollar in your hand

Stick to the promise girl that
You made me (x3)
Won’t got married til’ uh
I go free
I go free lordy, I go free
Won’t got married til’ uh
I go free

Whoa Rosie, hold on gal (x2)

When She walks she reel and
Rocks behind (x2)
Aint that enough to worry,
convicts mind (x2)

Whoa Rosie, hold on gal (x2)

(return to first verse)

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All research points to this little piece of astounding being recorded in 1947 at the Mississippi State Penitentiary at Parchman. The inmates are singing the song while chopping wood or some such torment in the southern heat.