Nightmare - John Lee Hooker

These nightmares, nightmares, nightmares rides me all the time

These nightmares, nightmares, rides me all the time

I can’t sleep at night, I can’t sleep at night

These nightmares rides me night and day

I wonder why, my telephone don’t never ring

Yes, I wonder why my telephone don’t never ring

When my baby she was here with me

My telephone rung both night and day

My friends don’t come around me, they don’t seem like they know me no more

You know my friends don’t come around me, ever since my baby been gone

These nightmares keep on riding me

You know they ride me night and day

Yes, yes

Yes, I went to a gypsy woman, just to have my fortune read

Yes, I went to a gypsy woman, just to have my fortune read

She said John you ain’t never had a friend

They only was pretendin' to be

I said, «gypsy woman, can you stop these nightmares from riding me

Mmm, stop these nightmares from riding me

Because I just can’t live on, live on, live on this way»