Worried Man Blues

It takes a worried man to sing a worried song

It takes a worried man to sing a worried song

It takes a worried man to sing a worried song

I’m worried now but I won’t be worried long

I went across the river and I laid down to sleep (3times)

When I woke up there were shackles on my feet

Twenty one links of chain around my leg (three times)

And on each link the initials of my name

I asked the judge what’s gonna be my fine (three times)

Twenty one years on the Rocky Mountain Line

If anyone should ask you who composed this song (three times)

Tell him it was I and I sing it all day long