The Blues Is Here to Stay Lyrics
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 cityThe 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 doin 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
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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
