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Words and music by Henry Clay Work, arranged and adapted by Joe Flood

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Say brothers have you seen the master
With the mustache on his face
Go along the road sometime this morning
Like he’s going to leave this place
He’d seen the smoke way up the river
Where the Lincoln gunboats lay
He grabbed his coat and he left very sudden
And I expect he’s run away

Chorus
Oh, the master’s run, ha, ha
And we will stay, ho, ho
It must be now there’s a kingdom coming
In the year of Jubilo

He’s six feet one way, three feet the other
And he weighs three hundred pounds
His coat’s so big he couldn’t pay the tailor
And it won’t go halfway ‘round
He drills so much they call him captain
And he gets so dreadful tanned
I expect he’ll try to fool them Yankees
For to think he’s contraband

Chorus

Now the folks all got so lonesome living
In the log house on the lawn
They moved their things into master’s parlor
For to keep them while he’s gone
There’s wine and cider in the kitchen
And you and me’ll have some
I expect it’ll all be confiscated
When the Lincoln soldiers come

Chorus

Now the overseer he gave us trouble
So we chased him ‘round a spell
Then we locked him down in the old fruit cellar
With the key throwed down the well
The whip is lost the chain is broken
And the master’ll have his day
He’s old enough, big enough, and should’ve known better
Than to try to run away

Chorus

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from Songs From the Bend in the River, track released April 12, 2015
Joe Flood, vocal, banjo, slide guitar; Joe Fonda, double bass; Scott Kessel, drums; Gene Clarke, trumpet; Mark Herschler, guitar; Mark, Gene, J. Scott Braden, and Tommy Rodgers, background vocals

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Joe Flood New Haven, Connecticut

Joe Flood is a songwriter, singer, and multi-instrumentalist who has performed, written, and recorded with many of the great names in American roots music, among them The Band, Blues Traveler, Dr. John, Bottle Rockets, Laura Cantrell, Eric Andersen, Happy and Artie Traum, Jim Weider, Eric "Roscoe" Ambel, Jono Manson, and the list goes on! Please visit www.joefloodmusic.com for more information. ... more

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