“Show Me the Way to Go Home, Babe”
Description
A lament on the effects of drinking and or rambling, perhaps with a request for forgiveness and/or floating blues lyrics. The whole is held together (if it is) by the chorus "Show me way to go home." The singer may have been drunk for many months
Recordings
- Gid Tanner & his Skillet Lickers, "Show Me the Way to Go Home" (Columbia 15404-D, 1929)
- Henry Whitter & Fiddler Joe [Samuels], "Show Me the Way to Go Home" (OKeh 45061, 1926)
References
- BrownIII 37, "Show Me the Way to Go Home, Babe" (7 short texts plus a single line fragment)
- Roud #7859
- BI, Br3037