Several readers suggested that my poem last week, “Oh, the Blues,” could be a song. That got my wheels turnin’, and this lyric is what churned out: an up-tempo blues in B

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Your dreams

Have been shattered

You’ve lost

What once mattered

Now you can

Partake of the blues

Your due’s

Been paid and spent

All hope’s

Crushed, broke and rent

Now you can

Partake of the blues

Life’s knocked you

Flat down

Whole world’s been

Spun around

[Break]

You gave it

Your best

Now you got

Nothing left

‘Cept the blues

Long day

Runs into night

You got

No will to fight

Now you can

Partake of the blues

Now you can

Partake of the blues

Oh the blues

By Mike Turner

From: United States

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