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Artist: Woody Guthrie
Canonical path: /guthrie-woody/worried-man-blues
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Worried Man Blues
Read Worried Man Blues lyrics by Woody Guthrie on LyroVerse, with linked artist context and related song paths.
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Worried Man Blues
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I went across the river,
I lay down to sleep (2x)
When I woke up...
Had shackles on my feet
It takes a worried man
To sing a worried song
It takes a worried man
To sing a worried song
I'm worried now
But I won't be worried long
Twenty-one links
Of chain around my leg (2x)
And on each link
'S an initial of my name
It takes a worried man...
I asked that judge
"What's gonna be my fine?" (2x)
Twenty-one years
On the Rocky Mountain line
It takes a worried man...
That train pulled out
Twenty-one coaches long (2x)
And the woman I love
Is on that train and gone
It takes a worried man...
Twenty-one years
Pay my awful crime (2x)
Tweny-one years
And I still got ninety-nine
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