Blues in My Blood

My daddy was a handsome devil

He had a chain five miles long

On every link a heart does dangle

Of another lady he done wrong

My grandma turned her back on my mama

When she found out I was on my way

She rode on down to New Orleans

To find me a place to lay

Blues in my blood

Not a nickel left in her pocket

Not a cent to her lonesome name

Not a penny for a cradle to rock me

Nothing but the guilt and shame

I was birthed with the blues in my blood

She barely saw me when they took me away

I spent my whole life searching for something

Something I didn't know I lost that day

Blues in my blood

They said when they brought me home I screamed

Bloody murder all night long

I never thought it wasn't good that they had done

I never felt like I ever belonged

I spent my whole life looking at faces

I spent my whole life walking in the dark

Just trying to fill these empty spaces

Clinging only to the music in my heart

Blues in my blood