BLUES YOU CAN’T LOSE

Lyrics By:  Willie Dixon

 

Many questions have been asked

Through many generations

Why poor people have the blues

Because so long they have tried

To achieve freedom, justice and equality

And yet still today

Success seems to be

A distance away

And these are some of the ways

They have tried

 

Some they march, while some stand still

Some they die while others live

Some they laugh, while some they cry

Some hang on, while some pass by

With all these things in a poor man’s mind

He got to have a blues he can’t leave behind

 

Some are high, some are low

Some are sure and some don’t know

Some are weak, and some are strong

Some are here and some are gone

With all these things in a poor man’s mind

He got to have a blues, he can’t leave behind