《Prisoner’s Talking Blues》歌词

[00:05:13] Angola State Penitentiary, Angola, Louisiana - 1959 (?)

[00:05:13] Robert Pete Williams – voice, guitar

[00:05:13] Lord, I feel so bad sometime, seems like that I’m weakening every day

[00:05:13] You know, I’ve begin to get grey since I got here

[00:05:13] Well, a whole lot of worryin’ causin’ that

[00:05:13] But I can feel myself weakening

[00:05:13] I don’t keep well no more, I keeps sickly

[00:05:13] I takes a lot of medicine, but it looks like it don’t do no good

[00:05:13] All I have to do is pray, that’s the only thing’ll help me here

[00:05:13] One foot in the grave, look like, and the other one out

[00:05:13] Sometimes looks like my best day gotta be my last day

[00:05:13] Sometimes I feel like I never see my little ol’ kids anymore

[00:05:13] But if I don’t never see ‘em no more, leave ‘em in the hands of God

[00:05:13] You know, my sister, she’s like a mother to me

[00:05:13] She do all in the world that she can

[00:05:13] She went all the way along with me in this trouble, ‘til the end

[00:05:13] In a way, I was glad my poor mother had ‘ceased because she suffered with heart trouble

[00:05:13] And trouble behind me sure woulda went hard with her

[00:05:13] But if she were livin’, I could call on her sometime

[00:05:13] But my ol’ father dead, too

[00:05:13] That’d make me motherless and fatherless

[00:05:13] It’s six of us sisters, three boys

[00:05:13] Family done got small now, looks like they’re dyin’ out fast

[00:05:13] I don’t know, but God been good to us in a way

[00:05:13] ‘Cause ol’ death have stayed away a long time

[00:05:13] Lord, my worry sure carryin’ me down

[00:05:13] Lord, my worry sure is carryin’ me down

[00:05:13] Sometimes I feel like, baby, committin’ suicide

[00:05:13] Yeah, sometimes I feel, feel like committin’ suicide

[00:05:13] I got the nerve if I just had anything to do it with

[00:05:13] I’m goin’ down slow, somethin’ wrong with me

[00:05:13] Yes, I’m goin’down slow, somethin’ wrong with me

[00:05:13] I’ve got to make a change while I’m young

[00:05:13] If I don’t, I won’t ever get old.