Goodnight, Irene (1950)
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(wm) Huddie Ledbetter, John Lomax (I) Leadbelly(Huddie Ledbetter) (P) The Weavers with Gordon Jenkins and his Orchestra No. 1 Chart Record (CR) Jo Stafford
Last Saturday night I got married. Me and my wife settled down
Now me and my wife are parted
I’m gonna take another stroll downtown

Chorus:
Irene goodnight, Irene goodnight
Goodnight Irene goodnight, I’ll see you in my dreams

Sometimes I live in the country, sometimes I live in the town
Sometimes I have a great notion to jump into the river and drown

I love Irene, God knows I do. I’ll love her till the seas run dry
And if Irene turns her back on me I’d take morphine and die