blues for memphis slim

Singer:burdon, eric

you know when you're born

you first see light of day

through a gap in your mother's legs

it's the truth

and from that minute on

most of us guys

and some of you girls spend your life

trying to get back into a hole

mmm-hmm

but

don't worry

because if you make it

if you don't make it

they're gonna dig a hole for you eventually in the ground

and slot you right back to mother earth

mother earth is waitin' for you

yes she is

she is big and she's round

and it's cold way down in the ground

you may not be happy all the time

you may never be that way

mother earth is waitin' for you

for that debt you've got to pay

don't care how big you are

i don't care what you were

when it all is up

you've got to go back to mother earth

you could be blase with life

only make love to foreign girls

you may have a little jet

baby

and fly all around the world

don't care how big you are

i don't care what you were

when it all is up

you've got to go back to mother earth

sweet mother earth

baby

you may own some racing horses

even own a whole damn track

you may have enough money

baby

to buy anything you lack

don't care how big you are

i don't care what you were

when it all is up

you got to go back to mother earth

she is waitin' for you

girl

when it all is up

you got to go back

way back to mother earth

yes

when the acid trip is over

you

you got to come back to mother blues

yeah

mother blues

i feel so bad

oh

all i can do is sing these blues

yeah

when it all is up

you've got to go back to mother earth

oh baby you hear what i say?