"I'm Going to Georgia" Performance
Added 2021-03-05 16:11:40 +0000 UTCI learned "I'm Going to Georgia" from 1980s recordings of Lawrence Eller collected by Art Rosenbaum in Towns County, Georgia. At the end of one recording Eller says, "That's a good old tune. I learned that from my mother."
I'm going to Georgia
I'm going to Rome,
I'm going to Georgia
Gonna make it my home
I left my dear old father
My country and land,
I left my poor old mother
Wringing her hands
Gonna build me a little cabin
On top of some rise,
Where the snowbirds and the wild geese
Can hear my sad cry
I'm troubled I'm troubled
I'm troubled in mind,
If trouble don't kill me
I'll live a long time
Doc Watson recorded this song as "I'm Troubled," and I have seen it printed in an old book of cowboy songs as "Feet in the Stirrups."
