I Got The Blues More Then You Blues
(Jewel Kilcher)


Grew up in the Mississippi delta
In a shotgun shack
Washboard for my pillow
'Til the tax man took that back
Moved out on my own
I was just twelve years old ... top that
You think you got the blues
Look at my life
I got the blues more than you do ... blues

When I was an itty-bitty baby
I was my mama's only surviving son
She used my head as a washrag
I thought it was fun
Walked to school uphill both ways
With no legs ... top that
You think you got the blues
Look at my life
I got the blues more than you do ... blues

Got so drunk the other nightI couldn't find my way home
Had to have a blind man show me
When I finally did get there,
My own dog had disowned me
A woman in a bar just looked at me and coughed and said
"I don't even know you, but I wish you'd die off" ... top that
You think you got the blues
Look at my life
I got the blues more than you do ... blues