Long before I learned how to tie my shoes
I learned that New Orleans was
the home of the blues
Not long ago one morn
in' the sun in the city
The blues went rollin' and
tumbin' ya'll up the Mississippi
Up
through the delta
Up to memphis tennessee
Where every people struggled ya'll
Struggled to be free
The blues is the music
That fanned the flame
That burned in the soul
Little Wal ter and Elmore
James
The blues is a music
That anyone can feel
It comes from the crowds of the people
that worked the cotton field
The blues threw out a pain,
but now it can heal
And the more I sing it,
the better I feel
And nobody can give it away
Nobody can take it away
Nobody can throw it away
And you can't even pray it away
And the blues is a
feel'in that will never die
And the blues is a feel'in to stay
What would this world
be without BB King
Without Bobby Blue Bland
doin his thing
Without T Bone Walker
an d Howl'in Wolf
Without Bessie and Big Mama strut
t'in thier stuff
There'd be no Elvis no Jerry Lee
A young Eric Clapton would have
never crossed the sea
Without old Light'in, Jimmy Reed,
Muddy Waters to grow up on
Hey the Beatles and the Stones they'd of never left home,
no no
The blues is the gospel
of the common man
The story of a people in a hostile land
Built on a foundation
that will never fall
Thanks to Robert Cray, Stevie Ray,
and Taj Majal
And nobody can give it away
Nobody can take it away
Nobody can throw it away
And you can't even pray it away
And the blues is a feel'in that will
never die
And the blues is a feel'in to stay