
Date of issue: 18.02.2016
Song language: English
Big Country Blues |
Well, I been up the Mississippi to the Manitoba line |
I’ve been downstream to the Gulf of Mexico |
Followed the sun out west to Californ |
And there just ain’t no place left for me to go |
Spent a lonesome month in Maine and a year in Louisian |
Packed my bags and hit the Westward Trail |
Rambled down through Texas 'til I came to El Paso |
Spent a week in a stinkin' Juarez jail |
Well, I rambled through Nevada gamblin' most of my life away |
I headed north when I heard Dakota call |
Well, I stayed until the Northers came rollin' down the line |
I headed south when summer turned to fall |
I’ve been north and east, south where the cotton grows |
And out in the west where the sun forever shines |
Well, I’ve bent my back for a dollar a day in a Texas sugar field |
Labored in a Minnesota mine |
Well, I’ve seen your hungry babies scream, I watched their mamas cry |
Seen a worn out prostitute beg for a dime |
I’ve seen men come out of gutters ready to give their lives away |
For a slug at a lousy bottle of rot gut wine |
I’ve been up the Mississippi to the Manitoba line |
Downstream to the Gulf of Mexico |
Followed the sun out west to Californ |
And there just ain’t no place left for me to go |
Well, there just ain’t no place left for me to go |
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Black Widow Blues | 2018 |
Waiting Around To Die | 2018 |
Snake Song | 2009 |
Mr. Mudd And Mr. Gold | 1996 |
Dollar Bill Blues | 2005 |
Dead Flowers | 1993 |
If I Need You | 2018 |
Nothin' | 2018 |
Fare Thee Well, Miss Carousel | 2018 |
St. John the Gambler | 2016 |
Don't Take It Too Bad | 2006 |
Pancho & Lefty ft. Townes Van Zandt | 2014 |
None But The Rain | 2006 |
Colorado Girl | 2006 |
You Are Not Needed Now | 2018 |
St. John and the Gambler | 2005 |
Honky Tonkin' | 1996 |
Highway Kind | 1996 |
High, Low And In Between | 1996 |
Blue Ridge Mountains | 1996 |