Gonna be a Baptist preacher
Gonna join the Baptist church
Gonna get me religion
So I don't have to work
Can't seem to turn him around
I had religion, Lord, this very day
And preach the blues
Gonna get me religion
I don't believe you will
So preach the blues
Blues fell mama's child, tore me all upside down
Gonna join the Baptist church
Preach the blues now
Blues is an achin' old heart disease
They would not let me pray
Worried blues, give me your right hand
It's like consumption, baby
Blues is low down shaking chill
Blues is low down shaking chill
So preach the blues
Preach the blues now
I had religion, Lord, this day, very day
Killin' me by degrees
Travel on ol' Jeffrey Lee, ya know
Ah, blues fell mama's child, tore me all upside down
But the womens and the whiskey
You ain't never had them
Blues is an achin' old heart disease
