Lyrics

Official Lyrics:

If you’ve never heard it before,
The nature of the blues,
Lend to me you’re ear and I’ll,
I’ll spread the news!

William Christopher Handy,
Eighteen-nintey-three,
travelled up the road a piece,
and he played his horn for you and me!

Ninteen-hundred-and-fourteen,
he laid his St. Louis Blues on his horn,
with a melody to place my steps between,
from the day I was born, born with those…

[Chorus]
Singing River Blues, Singing River Blues, Singing River Blues, I play for you, W.C. Handy

Operator call me, Mother’s on the phone,
‘Got to get my message out to her, that she’s not alone!
Things surely change in the ‘dozen enough to turn your head around, first she lost her Mother then her Husband, put ‘em in the ground, with those…

[Chorus]
Singing River Blues, Singing River Blues, Singing River Blues, I play for you, Mama!

So if the ones you lover’ the same people that you hurt, ‘got to tell them how you feel now before you find yourself in the dirt, with those…

[Chorus]
Singing River Blues, Singing River Blues, Singing River Blues, are written for you!

[Bridge]
So if you’re dancin’ in the rain, you could wash away your pain, with those: Singing River Blues!