ATF: Blues Dues

This weekly series will include as many of my all-time favorite tunes as I can get my grubby little hands on (so to speak).  Now, each one included in each edition will have some connection with the other—albeit only as a figment of my imagination, but they will not be numbered.  For I just cannot bring myself to rate some higher than others.  So, this will not be a countdown, but if you are enjoying them as much as I do, it won’t matter.  Besides, with no countdown, this could go on forever and ever!  Oh, and despite the fact that there is absolutely no way that your musical tastes can be as exquisite as mine, I welcome any suggestions that you might dare to make.  I am, after all, quite magnanimous by nature.

Link: [Ringo Starr]

It Don’t Come Easy

Ringo Starr

It don't come easy

You know it don't come easy

It don't come easy

You know it don't come easy

Got to pay your dues

If you wanna sing the blues

And you know

It don't come easy

You don't have to shout

Or leap about

You can even

Play them easy

Forget about the past

And all your sorrow

The future won't last

It will soon be your tomorrow

I don't ask for much

I only want trust

And you know

It don't come easy

And this love of mine

Keeps growing all the time

And you know

It just ain't easy

Open up your heart

Let's come together

Use a little love

And we will make it work out better

Got to pay your dues

If you wanna sing the blues

And you know

It don't come easy

You don't have to shout

Or leap about

You can even

Play them easy

Please remember peace

Is how we make it

Here within your reach

If you're big enough to take it

I don't ask for much

I only want trust

And you know

It don't come easy

And this love of mine

Keeps growing all the time

And you know

It don't come easy

Link: [Everlast]

What It’s Like

Everlast

We've all seen the man at the liquor store

Beggin' for your change

The hair on his face is dirty

Dreadlocked

And full of mange

He ask the man for what he could spare

With shame in his eyes

Get a job

You f***in' slob's

All he replied

God forbid you ever had to walk

A mile in his shoes

'Cause then you really might know what it's like

To sing the blues

Then you really might know what it's like

What it’s like

What it’s like

Then you really might know what it's like

What it’s like

What it’s like

Then you really might know what it's like

What it’s like

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Then you really might know what it's like

Mary got pregnant from a kid named Tom

Who said he was in love

He said don't worry about a thing baby doll

I'm the man you've been dreamin' of

But three months later

He said he won't date her

Or return her call

And she sweared g** d***

If I find that man

I'm cuttin' off his b****

And then she heads for the clinic

And she gets some static

Walkin' through the doors

They call her a killer

And they call her a sinner

And they call her a whore

God forbid you ever had to walk a mile in her shoes

'Cause then you really might know what it's like to have to choose

Then you really might know what it's like

What it’s like

What it’s like

Then you really might know what it's like

What it’s like

What it’s like

Then you really might know what it's like

What it’s like

What it’s like

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I've seen a rich man beg

I've seen a good man sin

I've seen a tough man cry

I've seen a loser win

And a sad man grin

I heard an honest man lie

I've seen the good side of bad

And the down side of up

And everything between

I licked the silver spoon

Drank from the golden cup

Smoked the finest green

I stroked the fattest dimes

At least a couple of times

Before I broke their heart

You know where it ends

Yo it usually depends

On where you start

I knew this kid named Max

He used to get fat stacks

Out on the corner with drugs

He liked to hang out late at night

Liked to get sh** faced

And keep pace with thugs

Until late one night

There was a big gun fight

Max lost his head

He pulled out his chrome .45

Talked some sh**

And wound up dead

Now his wife and his kids are caught

In the midst of all of his pain

You know it crumbles that way

At least that's what they say

When you play the game

God forbid you ever had to wake up to hear the news

'Cause then you really might know what it's like to have to lose

Then you really might know what it's like

What it’s like

What it’s like

Then you really might know what it's like

What it’s like

What it’s like

Then you really might know what it's like

What it’s like

To have to lose

Lyrics From: [elyrics.net]

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