STEALIN’ – American “folk” song “of the 1920’s” (says Wikipedia) with some lines traceable to Gus Cannon and to Clarence Williams, who did the first recording of it in 1921.
G
Put your arms around me like a circle round the sun
C
I wantcha to love me mama like my easy rider done
CHORUS:
G
You don’t believe I love you, look what a fool I’ve been
G
Don’t believe I’m sinking, look what a hole I’m in
G G7 C
Stealin’, stealin’, pretty mama don’t you tell on me
G D G
I’m stealin’ back to my same old used to be.
Instrumental over verse and chorus chords
The woman I love she just my height and size
Married girl, come to see me some time
CHORUS [You don’t believe I love you etc., see above]
Instrumental over verse and chorus chords
G
Put your arms around me like a circle round the sun
C
I want to love you mama like my easy rider done
CHORUS & repeat two last lines:
Stealin’, Stealin’, pretty mama don’t you tell on me
I’m stealin’ back to my same old used to be.
