The Blues Is Here To Stay

Long before I learned how to tie my shoes

I learned that New Orleans was the home of the blues

Not long ago one mornin' the Sun in the city

The blues went rollin' and tumbin' ya'll up the Mississippi

Up through the delta

Up to memphis Tennessee

Where every people struggled ya'll

Struggled to be free

The blues is the music

That fanned the flame

That burned in the soul

Little Walter and Elmore James

The blues is a music

That anyone can feel

It comes from the crowds of the people that worked the cotton field

The blues threw out a pain, but now it can heal

And the more I sing it, the better I feel

And nobody can give it away

Nobody can take it away

Nobody can throw it away

And you can't even pray it away

And the blues is a feel'in that will never die

And the blues is a feel'in to stay

What would this world be without BB King

Without Bobby Blue Bland doing his thing

Without T Bone Walker and Howl'in Wolf

Without Bessie and Big Mama strutt'in thier stuff

There'd be no Elvis no Jerry Lee

A young Eric Clapton would have never crossed the sea

Without old Light'in, Jimmy Reed, Muddy Waters to grow up on

Hey the Beatles and the Stones they'd of never left home, no no

The blues is the gospel of the common man

The story of a people in a hostile land

Built on a foundation that will never fall

Thanks to Robert Cray, Stevie Ray, and Taj Majal

And nobody can give it away

Nobody can take it away

Nobody can throw it away

And you can't even pray it away

And the blues is a feel'in that will never die

And the blues is a feel'in to stay