Nigger Blues lyrics

Oh! I'm blue! oh! the blues ain’t nothing,

the blues ain’t nothing, but a good man feeling bad

oh! the blues ain’t nothing, but a good man feeling bad

and that's a feeling I have often had.

Oh! You can call those blues, you can call those blues

any darn thing you please

oh! You can call the blues any darn thing you please

but those blues are nothing but a doggone heart disease.

When a man gets blue, when a man gets blue

why, he takes a train and rides

I said, when a man gets blue, he takes a train and rides

but, when a woman gets the blues, she hang her pretty head and cries.

I'm as black as a berry, sweet as the juice

and for me the girls all fall

I'm as black as a berry and for me the girls all fall

why, they call me sweet Papa, cause I’m tee’d up tall, I'm tee’d up tall.

I went to the gypsy, to the gypsy, to have my fortune told

I went down to that gypsy to have my fortune told

and that sweet gypsy said, doggone, your down hard luck told

oh! Honey, when I die, when I die, baby don't you wear no black

(I don't want wear no black, Papa)

when I die, I said, I don't want you to wear no black

(I don't like black, Papa) neither do I

cos, if you do, my ghost will come creeping back

(oo, I hate you!).

Why, that river black, the river deep and black

but, I don't care a gosh, look honey that’s river

the river deep and black, but I don't care a gosh

mmm, If I had a nerve, I'd go and, I'd go and end the lot

I guess, I'll lay my head, lay my head on some railroad line.

I'm gonna lay my head on some railroad line

oh! That Santa Fe come and pacify my mind

oh! yonder comes, yonder comes, look at that train coming down the track honey.

just look at it, why, yonder comes, train coming down that track

take a look honey, It's gonna take me away, never going to bring me back.

• Artist:Al Bowlly