"False Hearted Lover's Blues" by Dock Boggs

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I learned "False Hearted Lover's Blues" from a 1927 recording of Moran Lee "Dock" Boggs. The melody is borrowed from the earlier ballad, "Hustling Gamblers," also known as "Country Blues." Other notable recordings have been contributed by Ralph Stanley, Levon Helm, Riley Baugus, and Hank III.

False hearts have been my downfall
Pretty women have been my craze,
I'm sure my false-hearted lover
Will lay me in my lonesome grave.

They'll bite the hand that feeds them
Spend all the money you can save,
From your heart strings weave silk garters
Build a dog house on your grave.

Ragged clothes falling from my body
The wolves howling 'round my door,
Let the man who loves my darling girl
Feel the bite of of my forty-four.

Corn whisky has ruined my body
These women is a wearing on my mind,
I've traveled this wide world over
Peace on earth I cannot find.

When my earthly stay is over
Sink my dead body in the sea,
Go and tell my false-hearted lover
That the whales will fuss over me.

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