Lena Mae Rivers - Take Me When You Go

Slow Memphis soul-blues with female vocals - a woman asks to be taken along on the last night before he leaves. His suitcase has been standing open by the kitchen door since Tuesday, and she has stepped over it every day without saying a word. Now the kettle is on, the ticket north is lying on the table, and she has one thing left to ask him. Hammond organ and a crying lead guitar carry this slow Memphis soul-blues while Lena Mae Rivers sings it out with her head thrown back. "Take Me When You Go" - performed by Lena Mae Rivers. An original slow Memphis soul-blues with a gospel edge from Home Of Blues. New from Lena Mae Rivers. If you loved Lena Mae Rivers before, the earlier songs are here: Lena Mae Rivers - Midnight Blues Sound -    • Lena Mae Rivers - Midnight Blues Sound   LYRICS Your suitcase been open by the door since Tuesday, and I keep steppin' over it like it ain't there. I pressed your good shirt twice and hung it on the line, you got one ticket north and work you can't turn down, so I'm askin' you plain before the kettle starts to sing: Take me when you go, I don't need room, I'll ride with the tools in back. Poor in a strange town beats comfortable alone, this house don't warm me, it just keeps me home. So take me when you go. Every board in this floor knows my step by now, and there ain't one thing in here I'd cry over. Miss Ruthie says a woman ought to learn to wait, says the waitin' is the part that makes you good. I waited on my daddy four winters. He never come. Take me when you go, I don't need room, I'll ride with the tools in back. Poor in a strange town beats comfortable alone, this house don't warm me, it just keeps me home. So take me when you go. I remember you fixin' that latch with a piece of wire, said it'd hold till we found somewhere better to be. Better is you in the road with the engine runnin', and me the one thing you didn't pack. I ain't proud, I'm askin' twice and I'll ask again, 'cause pride kept my mother in a clean house, alone. If you tell me no I'll wave, and I'll lie about my smile. Take me when you go, I don't need room, I'll ride with the tools in back. Poor in a strange town beats comfortable alone, this house don't warm me, it just keeps me home. So take me when you go. (oh, take me) Take me when you go. Lord, take me when you go. Subscribe for a new original blues every week:    / @homeofblues   Slow blues playlist:    • Deep Blues | Slow, Emotional & Vintage   #Blues #SlowBlues #SoulBlues #FemaleBluesVocals