Honey make me down a pallet on your floor make me down a pallet on your floor honey make it down make it soft and low then maybe my good gal she won t know.
Make me down a pallet on your floor.
Make me down a pallet on your floor 2x make me a pallet down soft and low make me a pallet on your floor.
The song is traditional with additional lyrics by gi.
Sam chatmon performs make me a pallet on the floor vocal and guitar.
I m goin up the country through the sleedin snow goin up the country through the sleedin snow i m goin up the country through the sleedin snow ain t no telling just how fur i ll go.
Make me down a pallet on your floor make me down a pallet on your floor make me down a pallet soft and low when i m broken i got nowhere to go been hangin around with a good time friends of mine hangin around with a good time friends of mine oh they treat me very nice and kind when i ve got a dollar and a dime we re in blues everywhere i see.
Chorus make me down a pallet on your floor make me down make me a pallet down soft and low make me a pallet on your floor verse 1 i m going up the country 20 miles more.
Gillian welch and partner producer david rawlings perform at st lukes for the bbc four sessions in 2007.
It is considered a standard.
Up the country where there s cold sleet and snow up the country where there s cold sleet and snow i m goin up the country where there s cold sleet and snow no tellin how much further i may go.
Make me a pallet on the floor also make me a pallet on your floor make me a pallet or pallet on the floor is a blues jazz folk song.
1 jelly roll morton explained the title.
A pallet is something that you get some quilts in other words it s a bed that s made on a floor without any four.
Shot by alan lomax john bishop and worth long at sam chatmon s home hollandale mi.