I'VE BEEN TREATED WRONG
(Washboard Sam, 1941)

1 I don't know my real name : I don't know when I was born
2 The trouble I been having : seem like I was raised in a orphan's home
3 My mother died and left me : when I was only two years old
4 And the trouble I been having : the good Lord only knows
5 I been treated like an orphan : and been worked like a slave
6 And if I ever get my revenge : evilness will carry me to my grave
7 Now I been having trouble : ever since I been grown
8 I'm too old for the orphan : and too young for the old folks' home

(From: Michael Taft, Blues Lyric Poetry: An Anthology, Garland, 1983, p. 286)

~Masato