My woman says it's a dog gone shame the way. Some men bring their wives money. And furs and jewelry and I come home. Ain't got a dime and smellin' like a brewery.
My baby don't have to work. Don't have to rob or steal. Well, my baby don't have to work. Don't have to rob or steal. I'll give her everything she needs.
I'm driftin' and driftin', like a ship out on the sea. I'm driftin' and driftin', like a ship out on the sea. Nobody seems to want me. Except the wide and open sea.
Lay awake at night. For some loving untroubled. I can't keep a job. Laid off and I'm having double trouble. . But hey hey, to make it you've got to try.
I've been down since i began to crawl. If it was'nt for bad luck i wouldn't have no luck at all. . Bad luck and trouble. Been my only friends. been on my own since i was ten.
I was born in Chicago at nineteen and forty-one. I was born in Chicago at nineteen and forty-one. Well, my father told me. "Son, you had better get a gun".
Blues with a feeling that's what I have today. Blues with a feeling that's what I have today. I've got to find my baby if it takes all night and day. .
When you have these blues. And there's someone you're about to lose. There'll be a time, yeah, you can't sleep at night. She won't believe in you, oh, if you don't treat her right.
Silly girl. . I tried to write you a love song in the middle of the night. Everything rhymed but it didn't feel quite right. Anyway, that's all we need is another modern day Shakespeare.
In the deep dark hills of Eastern Kentucky. That's the place where I traced my bloodline. And it's there I read on a hillside gravestone. "You'll never leave Harlan alive".
When you know and you will. It wasn't meant to be. When she walks and she will. You're gonna come to me. . When she lies and she will. When all is said and done.
For so long I've been on my own. Trying to find my heart a new home. I'd almost given up. Attempt to spend the years. Withering in sorrow. And drowning in my tears.
It's a long way off from where I should be goin'. And every time I hate to leave your side. But now when I return there's something missin'. When I'm gone you don't seem to miss me.
Most people use money to measure success. The big car they're driving and the way that they dress. If there's someone who loves you you're richer by far.
Well. I gave you my heart and what did you do?. You dragged it around and you broke it in two.. You don't get no more.. You don't get no more.. When you use up my heart.
She left the car in the driveway. She left the key in the door. She left the kids at her Mama's. And the laundry piled up on the floor. . She left her ring on the pillow.
She left the car in the driveway. She left the key in the door. She left the kids at her Mama's. And the laundry piled up on the floor. . She left her ring on the pillow.
When you said you love me. I believed it was true, it was true. And now you say you're leavin'. Now you got me needin' you. You go and say we're through.
The car is runnin' and your bags are packed, I guess that says it all. Your head is hangin' and you look real sad, maybe you should've called. You say you think you need a brand-new start.
You wanted your freedom, well, man look around. Now you're trapped by her memory and the cold hauntin' sound. Of your restless heart, she never could take.