oakland is right across the bay from san francisco that s where jesse fuller lives jesse fuller plays the twelve string guitar like lead belly guitar and the harmonica too electric also has a kind of five string bass like thing on the floor that he plays with his fotdella and jesse wrote this song and i ll sing it to you know i ll sing it all day long i got the blues when my baby left me by the san francisco bay ocean liner she s gone so far away didn t mean to treat her so bad best gal i ever have had she said goodbye like to made me cry i m gonna lay down and die i ain t got a nickel and i ain t got a lousy dime if she don t come back i think i m gonna lose my mind if she ever comes back to stay it s gonna be another brand new day walkin with my baby down by the san francisco bay sittin down lookin through my back door wonderin which a way to go woman i m so crazy about she don t want me no more think i ll take me a freight train because i m feelin blue ride all the way to the end of the line thinkin only of you meanwhile in another city just about to go insane sound like i heard my baby the way she used to call my name if she ever comes back to stay it ll be another brand new day walkin with my baby down by the san francisco bay hey walkin with my baby down by the san francisco bay