Make Me Down A Pallet On Your Floor

Sam chatmon performs make me a pallet on the floor vocal and guitar.
Make me down a pallet on your floor. Honey make me down a pallet on your floor make me down a pallet on your floor honey make it down make it soft and low then maybe my good gal she won t know. Enjoy the videos and music you love upload original content and share it all with friends family and the world on youtube. Chorus make me down a pallet on your floor make me down make me a pallet down soft and low make me a pallet on your floor verse 1 i m going up the country 20 miles more. Shot by alan lomax john bishop and worth long at sam chatmon s home hollandale mi.
Up the country where there s cold sleet and snow up the country where there s cold sleet and snow i m goin up the country where there s cold sleet and snow no tellin how much further i may go. Way of sleepin my back and. The song is traditional with additional lyrics by gi. Doc merle watson from 1983.
Make me down a pallet on your floor make me down a pallet on your floor make me down a pallet soft and low when i m broken i got nowhere to go been hangin around with a good time friends of mine hangin around with a good time friends of mine oh they treat me very nice and kind when i ve got a dollar and a dime we re in blues everywhere i see. I m goin up the country through the sleedin snow goin up the country through the sleedin snow i m goin up the country through the sleedin snow ain t no telling just how fur i ll go. Gillian welch and partner producer david rawlings perform at st lukes for the bbc four sessions in 2007. Make me down a pallet on your floor 2x make me a pallet down soft and low make me a pallet on your floor.
It is considered a standard.