We Go Back (feat. Mavis Staples)

Cup of coffee cost a nickel

Newspaper sold for a dime

A dollar bought a pack of smokes

And a bottle of Mad Dog wine

We go back, yeah

When the blues was everywhere

We go back

Fightin’ hard to get our share

Times were bad, what a time we had

We go back, way, way back

On a balcony in Memphis

April 1968

I never will forget

What happened on that date

We go back

When the blues were everywhere

We go back

Fightin’ to get our share

Times were bad, but what a time we had

We go back, way, way, way back

I can see it in my mind

I still hear it in my ears

The crying and the dying

The hell it took to get us here

We go back

When the blues was everywhere

We go back, go back, go back

Fightin’ to get our share

Times were bad, but what a time we had

We go back, mmm, mmm, we go back

We go way, way back

I wanna go

Back to the hometown where my grandma was

Lived in them a good home

<span begin="3:32.642" end="3:35.062">Right on Highway 61</span> <span ttm:role="x-bg"><span begin="3:33.943" end="3:38.293">(We go way)</span></span>

We had such a hard time, oh

But we, we made it, we made it

We had faith in grace

We believed, ha-ha, we could make it

And we did

Take me back

Back in the day

I remember when, oh yeah

Buddy, do you remember?

We go back