Lyrics: Prowlin’ Nighthawk
Album: Bluebird Recordings 1937
Artist: Robert Lee McCoy
 

Prowlin’ Nighthawk Trk 5 3:03
Robert Lee McCoy (aka Ramblin’ Bob & Robert Nighthawk)
(Robert McCoy)
Recorded: Aurora, Illinois – Leland Hotel Wed May 5th, 1937
Robert Lee McCoy – vocals and guitar
with Sonny Boy Williamson – harmonica and Joe Williams – guitar.
Album: Robert Lee McCoy Bluebird Recordings 1937-1939
1997 Bluebird RCA #67416-2
Transcriber: Awcantor@aol.com

Now, I am the prowlin’ nighthawk
I prowl ev’ryday and night
Now, I am the prowlin’ nighthawk
I prowl ev’ryday and night
An the reason I prowl so long
My baby don’t treat me right

I have prowled so long
‘Till it made my knee bones sore
I have prowled so long
‘Till it have made my knee bones sore
But when I find the little girl that I love
You won’t see me prowl no mo’

Someday
I ain’t gonna be no prowlin’ man
I said someday
I won’t be no prowlin’ man
I said I ain’t gonna be mischievious
Ain’t gonna be too hard to understand

‘Play it, play it, boy’

(harmonica & guitar)

‘You know you’ve been trav’lin’ like I have’
‘Play that thing, boy’

Now, I’ve been ramblin’ an prowlin’
Ever since I was twelve years old
I have been ramblin’ an prowlin’
Ever since I was twelve years old
An I wouldn’t stop ramblin’
For all my weight in gold

But someday, I ain’t gonna prowl no mo’
Yes, someday
I ain’t gonna prowl no more
But you know right now
I haven’t got no place to go.

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