Lyr Add: Ninety-Nine Year Blues (Jimmie Rodgers)

Subject: Lyr Add: NINETY-NINE YEAR BLUES (Jimmie Rodgers)
From: Jim Dixon
Date: 06 Apr 07 - 11:36 AM

I ran across this while looking for a different song with the same title: NINETY-NINE YEAR BLUES by Julius Daniels, recorded in 1927.


NINETY-NINE YEAR BLUES
(Jimmie Rodgers - Roy E. Hall)
As recorded by Jimmie Rodgers, 1932. (Victor 23669)

Lord, these ninety-nine blues ain't no fancy dream.
If you had two lives to live, you'd know just what I mean. (Hey, buddy.)

When the judge read the verdict, it nearly knocked me down. (Good mornin', judge.)
Said, "Boy, you got two sixes; they're upside down." YODEL

They carried me to the jailhouse; I fell down 'cross my bed. (Lord, lord!)
I couldn't sleep for crying. I wished to God I was dead. (Lord, I wish I's dead.)

It ain't the days I've been here; it's the days I got to stay.
All the old friends I ever had done shook hands and gone away. YODEL

My good gal told me the day I hit this can, (Hey, honey.)
"You made your bed in sorrow. Now sleep on it like a man." (Hey, hey, honey.)

Ninety-nine and ninety-nine makes one hundred and ninety-eight.
That's more years, pretty mama, than you can figure up on your slate. YODEL

All these old bootleggers come here and done their time
And left me here grinding on the same old ninety-nine. (Have mercy, Lord!)

I don't know what else is in the world to lose,
'Cause I've lost ev'rything except these ninety-nine blues. YODEL


[Hank Snow also recorded this.]