Low Down Blues
Low Down Blues
Night was wickedly long and so sad
woman gone with everything I had
No recollection of this in the plan
this gal done left her loving man
crickets chirping to beat the band
This gal done left here for all time
took my heart and every thin dime
No sorrow floats in her wicked heart
no crying now, praying I don't start
lord knows this man sure did his part
She left a few plates with an old hat
took my fine dog, left her old cat
No worry how her man going to get by
no good-bye note, told no reason why
now this heart has started to cry
Night surely can not get any worse
so sure my life wrapped in a curse
No future hope in this tired old life
had sweet plans to make her my wife
see only darkness, misery and strife
R.J. Lindley
04/17/1978
An old write that I wrote while drunk on whiskey
the night my love Stacy took off for greener pastures!
She phoned me 4 days later from Houstin Texas.
Told me her uncle had died and she was about to inherit
a damn lot of money! Then said, I just didn't want to share
any of it with you.
Life is like that sometimes...
Copyright © Robert Lindley | Year Posted 2014
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