Daddy’s Ole Blues

What will you do when you're left all alone

Your momma and your dad and your brother all gone

The good die young but I'm bad to the bone

Take these shoes...Livin' my Daddy's ole blues

Well he came up north just after the war

A temper from Harlan...you just can't ignore

Pistols and shells in the bottom chest drawer

Please excuse...Livin' my Daddy's ole blues

Airplanes and motors and ragged old sox

Playing games with the children with an old cardboard box

Hours and hours fixin' grandma's old clocks

We'll never use...my Daddy's ole blues

Well fortunes will come and fortunes will go

You can't take it with you...oh baby I know

But all I need is six in a row

Like front page news...Livin' my Daddy's ole blues

Well I heard him cry, said ain't it a shame

When he talked of my mother...he'd call her by name

My heart is so heavy and myself I do blame

Bound to lose...Livin' my Daddy's ole blues

Well I'm much too cheap to take on a bet

I worked all my life but I ain't dirty yet

All the bad times well I tend to forget

You can't refuse...your Daddy's ole blues

Well after he died and was put in his place

All of that family I tried to retrace

Dreamin' my hand was a touchin' his face

But whose is whose - me or my Daddy's ole blues

Well the years went by and what was now is

And the lines on my forehead are looking like his

We're keeping things even between all the kids

You can't confuse...me and my Daddy's ole blues

Ah but whose is whose

Me or my Daddy's ole blues