Mississippi Whip Blues

with a heavy heart inside the rain keeps on falling like tears from the sky above lost my darling love to the winds of hard time show working from the sunrise till the stars begin to gleam but the boss man's whip is cracking chasing down my dream oh the blues come calling in the dead of night singing about the sorrow that don't treat you right but i rise up steady with a fire in my soul gonna keep on walking till i reach my goal blues oh blues you can't break me down i'm resilient river flowing through this town mama used to hum it by the old wood stove's glow stories of the struggle from long long ago daddy picked the guitar with fingers calloused and worn playing those blue notes since the day was born the levee's breaking open oh the blues come calling in the dead of night singing about the sorrow that don't treat you right but i rise up steady with the fire in my soul gonna keep on walking till i reach my goal blues oh blues you can't break me down i'm resilient river flowing through this town oh the blues come calling in the dead of night singing about the sorrow that don't treat you right but i rise up steady with the fire in my soul gonna keep on walking till i reach my goal one day the sun will shine no more endless grind i'll sing my own freedom loud and clear and true from the delta's shadows i'll come breaking through a monica wailing like a cry from deep within echoes of the ancestors where the real pain begins bottle on the table empty promises it holds but my spirit's unbroken in these stories yet untold through the heat and the heartache i find my way somehow blues taught me to bend but never to bow oh the blues come calling in the dead of night singing about the sorrow that don't treat you right but i rise up steady with the fire in my soul gonna keep on walking till i reach my goal oh the blues come calling in the dead of night singing about the sorrow that don't treat you right but i rise up steady with the fire in my soul blues come calling in the dead of night singing about the sorrow that don't treat you right but i rise up steady with the fire in my soul gonna keep on walking till i reach my goal blues oh blue you can't break me down i'm resilient river flowing through this town