go down go down old hannah woah lord don t you rise no more go down go down hannah hannah please don t rise no more if i don t see your face i don t believe poor lightnin gonna have to fool with that hoe you know i use to have to take my hoe i used to have to walk a ton row i had to chip every little piece of grass that i see begin to grow and i got mad one morning chopped everything i see chopped at a man i swear that man turned around and chopped me go down go down hannah please don t rise no more i believe if you don t rise poor lightnin won t have to fool with this hoe you know i remember times i was walkin a ton row and everybody you see on the shoulder they had a hoe but you know that there meant you got to chop til the sun go down that s where you ll see everybody choppin cotton willow round  they say that if it wasn t for the sun we couldn t see i said no let the sun go down and the moon shine on me that s a light it s lightin ride i d rather that time than to have it in the daytime of course it s better at night i wouldn t have to chop no cotton or neither pull no corn and then if a mule start runnin away at the woods you could just say go head on go down old hannah oh lord don t rise no more go down go down old hannah no don t you rise no more you know poor lightnin done got tired walkin a ton row with his hoe you know my hand is sore from the hoe but i used to chop cotton on branches and all everywhere and they call it brazos but i was in one bottom on a dig i wasn t just exactly payin attention but i was a second the bar heh and uh i m tellin you time is kind of hard to you