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Artist: Bessie Smith
Canonical path: /bessie-smith/rocking-chair-blues
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Rocking Chair Blues
Read Rocking Chair Blues lyrics by Bessie Smith on LyroVerse, with linked artist context and related song paths.
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Rocking Chair Blues
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Did you ever wake up with sorrow all on your mind?
Did you ever wake up with sorrow all on your mind?
He plays the blues to his congregation, hear his trombone whine
He'll make you love, he'll make you cry, he'll sit right down and moan
He'll weep and moan till I hear him say
Lord I wonder where my loving man is gone
Easy rider
, you see I'm going away,
I won't be back until you change your ways
I won't be back until you change your ways
I'm going to the river carryin' a brand new rockin' chair
I'm going to the river carryin' a brand new rockin' chair
I'm gonna ask Mister Tadpole to move all his stuff from here
Blues jumped a rabbit, run him for a solid mile
Blues jumped a rabbit, run him for a solid mile
The rabbit turned over and he cried like a natural
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Bessie Smith performs "Rocking Chair Blues", and this lyric page sits inside the Bessie Smith catalog on LyroVerse.
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Yes. The related section below points to Beale Street Mama and A Good Man Is Hard To Find with a short reason for opening each page next.
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