Make Me a Pallet on the Floor

About Make Me a Pallet on the Floor

"Make Me a Pallet on the Floor" (also "Make Me a Pallet on your Floor", "Make Me a Pallet", or "Pallet on the Floor") is a blues/jazz/folk song now considered as a standard. The song's origins are somewhat nebulous and can be traced back to the 19th century. It appeared in sheet music in 1908 as part of "Blind Boone's Southern Rag Medley No. One: Strains from the Alleys." Various versions of the lyrics were first published in 1911 in an academic journal of ethnomusicology. Some sources attribute the modern score to W. C. Handy, who later modified it into a song known as "Atlanta Blues". An early recording of the song was made by Mississippi John Hurt (as "Ain't No Tellin'"). more »

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2001

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Well make me down a pallet on your floor
Make me down a pallet on your floor
Make me a pallet down, soft and low
Make me a pallet on your floor

Up to country twenty miles or more
Going up to country twenty miles or more
Going up to country where the cold, sleet and snow
No tellin' how much further I might go

Well make me down a pallet on your floor
Make me down a pallet on your floor
Make me a pallet close behind your door
Make it where your good man never goes, now

Oh, my good gal catch you here
Don't you let my good gal catch you here
She, might shoot you, might cut and scar you too
No tellin' what that gal might do

Oh make me down a pallet on your floor
Just make me down a pallet on your floor
Make me down, a pallet soft and low 
Make me a pallet on your floor

Oh make me down
Yeah make me down
Make me a pallet down, soft and low
Make me a pallet on your floor

Well make me down, make me down
Right over here in the corner would be fine baby, hm
Yeah, this roll-out blanket right there in
Yeah, come on over baby

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Mississippi John Hurt

John Smith Hurt, better known as Mississippi John Hurt (July 3, 1893 or March 8, 1892 — November 2, 1966) was an American country blues singer and guitarist. more »

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