The Hooking Cow Blues
Music by W.C. HANDY
DOUGLASS WILLIAMS Jazz & Blues
Lyrics by WILLIAMS

Original Publication and Copyright © MCMXVII by Pace & Handy Music Co., Memphis, Tenn

Verse 1.
Out in Texas with the hooking cows,
Is where I always long and always crave to be.
Tell me honey Do you ever think of me?
I have told you these same things before,
The way you treat me honey I will have to go.
If you love me you will have to tell me so,
You'll have to tell me so.

Chorus
For the Hooking cow Blues,
Oh those Texas cow Blues Ring in my ear
I seem to hear and see them dancing,
prancing out on the ranch.
Oh those Hooking cow Blues,
Oh those Texas cow Blues
I've surely got the Hooking cow Blues.

Verse 2.
When a woman sees the man she loves,
Her mind rocks like a ship upon a stormy sea.
All I want is Someone just to hear my plea.
My best friend done turned his back on me,
And if his heart ain't iron it must be marble stone.
I just hate the day I ever left my home,
I left my happy home.

Repeat Chorus