Someday Baby Blues

Someday Baby Blues  (1935)  by Anonymous

sister projects: Wikipedia article. "Someday Baby Blues", also known as "Worried Life Blues" or "Trouble No More", is a traditional blues song first recorded by "Sleepy John" Estes in 1935, but has been covered many times since.

I don't care how long you're gone,
I don't care how long you stay.
But that good kind treatment,
Bring you back home someday.
Someday baby,
You ain't going to worry my mind any more.

I hate that wind,
That old chilly breeze.
Come blowing through
Your BVDs.
But someday baby,
You ain't going to worry my mind any more.

If you don't quit bettin',
Boy those dice won't pay.
It's gonna send you home.
On your yas-yas-yas.
But someday baby,
You ain't going to worry my life any more.

It ain't but the one thing,
That give a man the blues.
He ain't got no bottom
In his last pair of shoes.
But someday baby,
You ain't worry my mind any more.

I tell all the people,
In your neighborhood.
You're a no-good woman,
You don't mean no good.
But someday baby,
You ain't going to worry for poor John's mind any more.

Licensing

This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was legally published within the United States (or the United Nations Headquarters in New York subject to Section 7 of the United States Headquarters Agreement) before 1964, and copyright was not renewed. For Class A renewals records (books only) published between 1923 and 1963, check the Stanford Copyright Renewal Database and the Rutgers copyright renewal records. For other renewal records of publications between 1922 - 1950 see the Pennsylvania copyright records scans. For all records since 1978, search the U.S. Copyright Office records. The author died in 1935, so this work is also in the public domain in countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 75 years or less. This work may also be in the public domain in countries and areas with longer native copyright terms that apply the rule of the shorter term to foreign works.