It's Hard to Be a Bluesman Lyrics

You Know The Blues

You know the blues is my kind of music

I want to spread it all around

But it's hard to be a blues man

In a rock and roll town

Who can't love Jimmy Reed Shuffle

It's a timeless classic sound

Still it's hard to be a blues man

In a rock and roll town

Here's why

Cause when you mention you play the blues

That's when they look at you and frown

They say the blues don't work here

In this rock and roll town

Because they want to let their freak flag fly

Although it sags a bit here and there

They're still searching for that hippie high

With missing teeth and thinning hair

They're still the vanguard of flaming youth

Convinced that rock and roll shouldn't rule

And they've been doing their best

To live that rock and roll dream

Since the day they left high school

Nobody said that life was easy

But sometimes it gets me down

It's hard to be a blues man

In a rock and roll town

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Well every blues jam goes the same way

And it's enough to make me scream

I know Crossroads is from Robert Johnson

But everybody else thinks it's from Cream

I know G.L. Crockett, Eight Mouth Brown

Muddy Waters and Albert King

But they think that newer rocked out covers

Are somehow the same thing

Maybe it's true that I'm a cynic

But it's because I've been around

Yeah it's hard to be a blues man

In a rock and roll town

Yeah it's hard to be a blues man

In a rock and roll town

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