Make Me A Pallet On Your Floor

(a.k.a. "Pallet On Your Floor")

Words & Music:

Traditional

 

The February 2006 issue of Acoustic Guitar has an arrangement of the Mississippi John Hurt version of this song.

 

CHORUS:

  C                       G

Make me a pallet on your floor.

  C                       G

Make me a pallet on your floor.

                      B7         C

Make it soft, make it low, so my good gal will never know.

  G        D              G

Make me a pallet on your floor.

 

These blues are everywhere I see.

Weary blues are everywhere I see.

Blues all around me, everywhere I see.

Nobody's had these blues like me.

 

CHORUS:

 

Come, all you goodtime friends of mine.

Come, all you goodtime friends of mine.

When I had a dollar you treated me just fine.

Where'd you go when I only had a dime?

 

CHORUS:

 

I'd be more than satisfied

If I could catch a train and ride.

When I reach Atlanta and have no place to go.

Won't you make me a pallet on your floor?

 

CHORUS:

 

 




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