When you go down in Deep Elem
Just have a little fun
You better have fifteen dollars
When that policeman comes.

Oh sweet mama
Daddy's got them Deep Elem blues
Oh sweet mama
Daddy's got them Deep Elem blues

Once I had a sweetheard
She meant the world to me
She went down to Deep Elem
She ain't what she used to be

When you go down in Deep Elem
Put your money in your pants
Those good looking women
Won't give a man a chance.

When you go down in Deep Elem
Put your money in your socks
Those Deep Elem women
They will throw you on the rocks.

I used to know a preacher
Preached the Bible through and through
He got down in Deep Elem
Got those Deep Elem blues.