Run Get My Shotgun

by Jessie Mae Hemphill

I’m gonna blow my baby away
Keep messing up on me
1990 gonna do something I got no business doing
Me and my shotgun

I said run get me my shotgun
And me a box of shells

If my baby keeps messing up on me
I’m gonna send his soul to hell

I had a little trouble 
Down on Ardmore Farm

Went looking for my baby
Some no-good woman hid him and gone

I tried to see my baby 
six feet in the ground
And if he keeps messing up on me
Keep running around

I’m gonna shoot my baby
Just to see him fall
If he don’t have me
He won’t have no one at all

I’m gonna shoot my baby full of holes 
Just before I go
I won’t be worried about him
Mistreating me no more

2019