Trouble in mind I'm blue but I won't be blue always

Because the sun's gonna shine in my backdoor someday

I'm gonna lay my head on some lonesome railroad line

And let that 2-20 pacify my worried mind

[ steel ]

Trouble in mind I'm blue and I almost lost my mind

Sometimes I feel like livin' sometimes I feel I could die

I'm going down to the river I'm gonna buy me a rockin' chair

And if the blues don't leave me I'm gonna rock away from here

[ fiddle ]

Trouble in mind I'm blue my old heart is a beating slow

I never had so much trouble in my life before

My good gal she done quit me and it sure did dread my mind

When you see me laughin' I'm just a tryin' to keep from cryin'