Pitiful Blues Songtext
von Malcolm Holcombe

All I wanna see, all I wanna hear
People dyin′, screamin' full of fear
An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth
I ain′t learned nothin' but the poor me pitiful blues

Go tell ya mama, tell ya daddy too
They drove me crazy tellin' me the truth
An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth
I ain′t learned nothin′ but the poor me pitiful blues


I had my share o' women, got all I could drink
Liquor kept me swimmin′ in my head too big to think
An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth
I ain't learned nothin′ but the poor me pitiful blues

Big man spends my money, big man lives it up
He don't give me nothin′, he don't give me some
Just an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth
I ain't learned nothin′ but the poor me pitiful blues

I sit around the table, pray down on the floor
Swear I′m gonna go to war and suffer nevermore
An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth
I ain't learned nothin′ but the poor me pitiful blues

It's an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth
I ain′t learned nothin' but the poor me pitiful blues
I ain′t learned nothin' but the poor me pitiful blues