Ninety Nine Year Blues - 1952 Songtext
von Hank Snow
Ninety Nine Year Blues - 1952 Songtext
Lawd, these 99 blues ain′t no fancy dream
If you had two lives to live, you'd know just what I mean
When the judge read the verdict, it nearly knocked me down (Good morning judge said)
Said boy, you got two sixes they′re all upside down (down, down)
They carried me down to the jailhouse, I fell down cross my bed long
I couldn't sleep for a crime, I wish the lord I was dead
Lord, I wish I was dead
It ain't the days I′ve been here, it′s the days I've got to stay
All the old friends I ever had done shook hands and gone away
My good girl told me the day I hit this can
You′ve made your bed in sorrow, now sleep on it like a man, hey honey
99 and 99 make 198
That's four years, pretty normal than you can figure up on your slate
All these old bootleggers come here and done their time
And left me here random on the same old night at night (have mercy lord)
I don′t know what else is in the world to lose
'Cause I′ve lost everything except these 99 blues
If you had two lives to live, you'd know just what I mean
When the judge read the verdict, it nearly knocked me down (Good morning judge said)
Said boy, you got two sixes they′re all upside down (down, down)
They carried me down to the jailhouse, I fell down cross my bed long
I couldn't sleep for a crime, I wish the lord I was dead
Lord, I wish I was dead
It ain't the days I′ve been here, it′s the days I've got to stay
All the old friends I ever had done shook hands and gone away
My good girl told me the day I hit this can
You′ve made your bed in sorrow, now sleep on it like a man, hey honey
99 and 99 make 198
That's four years, pretty normal than you can figure up on your slate
All these old bootleggers come here and done their time
And left me here random on the same old night at night (have mercy lord)
I don′t know what else is in the world to lose
'Cause I′ve lost everything except these 99 blues
Writer(s): Jimmie Rodgers, Raymond E. Hall Lyrics powered by www.musixmatch.com
