Clifton Hicks - I Don't Love Nobody (Elizabeth Cotten, Woody Guthrie, Grandpa Jones)

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gDGBD relative (fCFAC actual). I learned this song from a recording of Woody Guthrie titled "I Ain't Got Nobody" (not to be confused with the classic blues piece by the same title). See Elizabeth Cotten and Grandpa Jones for more versions.

Since the 1940s, most musicians have omitted the racial lyrics found in the original printed version, but kept the chorus:

"I don't love a nobody, nobody loves me
You're after my money, don't care for me,
I'm gwine to live single, always a be free
I don't love a nobody, nobody loves me."
(Sully, 1896)

Since I was raised on the Woody Guthrie version, I also sing a 'chorus' inspired by his recording:

I don't love nobody nobody loves me
I'm just like a little apple a hanging on a tree,
Don't nobody want me I can plainly see
I don't love nobody and nobody loves me!

Thanks to Ohio luthier, Evan Collins, and world-travelling troubadour, Jerron Paxton, for inspiration & information regarding this piece.
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