(Everybody’s Sorrow Song)
A blues from 1924
Words by Arthur Glendale
Music by James King
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:
Lyrics
- We all have our troubles
Over things we can’t do
Life’s so full of problems
That make me feel blue
My soul is so doleful
So, I’m asking you
Now do you much blame me
If I feel as I do
Chorus:
I got the ten, I got the ten
I got the ten commandment Blues
I’m down and out and have no doubt
The reason is I have too many don’ts to worry about
I’d like to do a thing or two
But try and find some fun that ain’t taboo
Thou shalt not steal or kill, or covet
Thou shalt not (Mmm Hum)
But gosh, how I love it
That melody haunts me
I know yielding is sin
I got the ten, I got the ten
I got the ten commandment Blues
- Now maybe you think that
I should never complain
Some folks have their worries
That drive them insane
But all of these shalt nots
They give me a pain
I’m so regulated
That I sing this refrain
Sung here by Laurence Rubenstein: