Cotton Shadows Blues

down in the delta where the cotton fields weep rivers run muddy with secrets they keep a lonesome guitar cries out in the night born from the chains reaching for light hardships my shadow it follows me close but in every blue note i find what i need most all the blues they call my name from the heart of the south through the fire and flame resilient spirit bend but don't break singing my sorrow for the whole world to take blue notes bending telling my tale in the bar rhythm i never fail african echoes in the midnight air voices of the weary burdens they bear working hands blistered dreams deferred so long but the harmonica wails out a resilient song expressive and raw like a storm on the rise pouring out emotion from these tears stained eyes all the blues they call my name from the heart of the south through the fire and flame resilient spirit bend but don't break singing my sorrow for the whole world to take blue notes bending telling my tale in the bar rhythm i never fail calling response like a prayer in the dark echoes of freedom leaving their mark from the deep south soil that sean rose born through the pain and the struggle a new dawn is sworn no electric lights just the souls on his fire generations carry this weight on their back but in every court scrub we push back the black personal stories woven in every line hardship and hope intertwined the blues ain't just music it's the beat of my soul making me whole when the world takes its toll all the blues they call my name from the heart of the south through the fire and flame resilient spirit bend but don't break singing my sorrow for the whole world to take blue notes bending telling my tale in the bar rhythm i never fail singing my sorrow for the whole world to take blue notes bending telling my tale in the bar rhythm i never fail singing my sorrow for the whole world to take blue notes bending telling my tale in the bar rhythm i never fail