Play Me the Blues

Riley Lincoln

West Palm Beach FL

December 2010

Hey man, hey man, can you play the blues?

  Hey man, hey man, can you play the real blues?

I mean from the top down through your shoes

  Can you play the blues?

I want those deep, deep blues

  Not just a song

Can you play the blues

 All night long?

I want those real blues

  About the train going down the track

The blues that says

  She's never coming back

Hey man, hey man, play those blues

  Sing those blues about

The big jaihouse upstate

  Where a man gets twenty to life

And about how it's too late

Hey man, I wanna hear

  Those lovesick blues

Sing to me about that

  Whiskey and booze

The real, real blues

Sing about how your pockets are empty

  You don't got any money

How that drifter man

  Took off with your honey

Hey man, play those blues

  Tell me what I'm gonna lose

Hey man, play those West Memphis blues

  Tell me about my wife

How she won't be part of my life

  Play those blues, man, play those blues

Say the words I wanna hear

Sing about dark nights

  Whiskey and beer

Lightning in the sky

  How we was all high

Then tell me why

Play the blues, make me believe

  The Devil's sitting in

Sing about our sin

  Play those blues again

Play them all night long

  And remember blues

Is not just a song

Hey man, do you play music?

  Hell no, I play the blues

Right down through my shoes