These Blues - JJ Cale

A hundred miles is not too far

Unless you have to walk

Life, it seems, is like a dream

Until you have to talk

Don’t wonder for a moment

If you win or lose

Just stop and stay, and watch the day

And listen to these blues

If it don’t work for you, girl

Put it off your mind

If you drink anew from the well

You find the bottom line

A fancy woman told me

John, you’re bound to do this

So I just stay and watch the day

And sing these lonesome blues

The blues is not a song you sing

It is a way of life

I’ve hung around them bar rooms, girl

Almost all my life

The men, they all are gamblers

They take all they can use

So if I find no peace of mind

I’ll settle for these blues