It's a Good Little Thing - Blind Willie McTell

We don't talk Lost connection We're moving on In the wrong direction It seems too late To repatriate Just too hard To put back together I think I've reached the end I'll always be your friend So maybe it's a good thing Better in the long run If I don't wanna lose you I need to let you go now Maybe it's a good thing I'll set you free And maybe you will realize We belong together So maybe it's a good thing It's so damn hard To make the words Leave my mouth You must be special We make vows To make it easy So here's my plan To make you need me I'll say I've reached the end Always be my friend So maybe it's a good thing... Why does wrong seen right And I don't know why love has brought me this fight And I just wonder why So maybe it's a good thing...

All this choosing wrong's losing ground Often feeling lost has brought it out But I'm looking for a love, not a heartache Yes, I'm gonna take my time Even though I know from the handshake if I wanna make you mine Oh, I am walking blind Maybe that's a good thing Maybe that's a good thing That I can't see what's coming And I don't much care Life has become one big stupid truth or dare Maybe it's a good thing Temper me with dignity today Ever true pure silver through my veins Looking for a change in my makeup Break apart and start again I will ask a question You will win my heart with it Oh, I will send you a sign Maybe that's a rare thing Maybe that's a rare thing When a light comes blinding And it stops me dead I'll always remember the time you sat next to me and you said Maybe it's a good thing When a light comes blinding And it stops me dead I'll always remember the time you sat next to me and you said Maybe it's a good thing Maybe it's a good thing Maybe it's a good thing

If you only knew what I saw in you You might break your rules Even change your mind Someday you'll grow up hopefully know enough And recognize A good thing when you see it I know you're kinda slow so boy I'll repeat it I could be that good thing I could be that good thing I think you've had enough It's time that you step up and use your voice For something more cause all that sweet talk worked with them girls You been with before But not with me I need to know If you're done being a boy and you're ready to grow up You better recognize A good thing when you see it I know you're kinda slow so boy I'll repeat it I could be that good thing I could be that good thing If you only knew what I saw in you I could be that good thing A good thing when you see it I know you're kinda slow so boy I'll repeat it I could be that good thing I could be that good thing

Such a little thing Such a little thing But the difference it made was grave There you go Wielding a bicycle chain Oh why won't you change? Change and be nicer? Such a little thing A gentle tone of kindness Or written words on paper - can you write? How I love all of The very simple things of life (God's good air) How I love all of The very simple things of life Such a little thing A fumbling politeness Oh, the difference saved me Wielding a bicycle chain Why won't you change? "I WILL NOT CHANGE AND I WILL NOT BE NICE" Most people keep their brains Between their legs (Don't you find?) Leave me alone, I was only singing Leave me alone because I Was only singing Leave me alone, I was only singing Leave me alone You have just proved again MOST PEOPLE KEEP THEIR BRAINS BETWEEN THEIR LEGS

Everybody keeps telling me I'm such a lucky man Lookin' at you standin' there I know I am Barefooted beauty with eyes that blue The sun shine sure looks good on you I swear Oh I can't believe I finally found you baby Happy ever after, after all this time Oh there's gonna be some ups and downs But with you to wrap my arms around I'm fine So baby, hold on tight Don't let go Hold onto the love we're making 'Cause baby when the ground starts shakin' You gotta know when you've got a good thing You know you keep on bringin' out the best in me And I need you now even more than the air I breathe You can make me laugh when I wanna cry This will last forever I just know, I know So baby, hold on tight Don't let go Hold onto the love we're making 'Cause baby when the ground starts shakin' You gotta know when you've gotta good thing We got a good thing, baby, whoa So hold on tight Baby, don't let go Hold onto the love we're making 'Cause baby when the ground starts shakin' You gotta know, oh you gotta know Oh you gotta know, you gotta know When you got a good thing We got a good thing baby Whoa Whoa Whoa Whoa Whoa

Delia, Delia, how can it be? You love that old rounder, but you don't love me Well, that's one more rounder gone Delia, Delia sitting all around Some of your old rounders gonna pay my way back home Sitting on the housetop, high as I can see You love that old rounder, but you don't love me Delia's poor mother took a trip out West When she returned, Delia lyin' in rest Delia's mother wept, Delia's father moaned They'd have wanted their poor child to die at home Rubber tired buggy, two-seated hack, Took Delia to the graveyard, never brought her back Kenny lookin' high, Kenny lookin' low, Shot poor Delia with that hated .44 Delia, Delia, wouldn't take no one's advice Last words I heard her say were, "Jesus Christ!" Judge said to Kenny, "Here's a natural fact: You going to wait in jail till Delia come back" Kenny's in the basement, drinking from a silver cup Delia's in the graveyard, never come back up Kenny said to judge, "What's the fuss about? Just that no good woman trying to put me out"

My love don't change There's going to be some stealing My love don't change There's going to be some stealing done And if I backbite you I don't mean no harm What do you want with a woman When she won't do nothing you say What do you want with a woman When she won't do nothing you say What do you want with a rooster When he won't crow 'fore day If my love don't change There's going to be some riding done If my love don't change There's going to be some riding done And if I take you woman I just be made my run Going in one of these alleys Get me some lonesome booze Going in one of these alleys Get me a quart of this lonesome booze My woman done left me I got these love changing blues

I was travelin' through South Americas Walked up to a lady's house Called her Grandma Didn't know her name, she give me something to eat Walked on down the road I heard a old train, getting off like this I heard a old bell ring, kinda like this I went on down, I heard an old whistle blow, I heard it saying Look a-yonder Look a-yonder At the women At the women I went on then, and begin to sing to the engineer Mr. Engineer, let a man ride the blinds Mr. Engineer, let a poor man ride the blinds Said, "I wouldn't mind it, fella But you know this train ain't mine" I begin to hear that old fella blow it long, sho' Here the way he blowed Then I begin to sing to him one more time You're a cruel fireman, low-down engineer You're a cruel fireman, low-down engineer I'm trying' to hobo my way And you leave me standing' here Then I go along further and begin to sing "Poor Boy" to him Then he begin to smile in my face Get up, fella, ride all 'round the world Get up, fella, ride all 'round the world Poor boy, you ain't got no girl Then I begin to hear him tell me about those cheese and eggs How he wanted 'em fixed Hear him say Scrambled down Scrambled down Scrambled down Then I begin to hear him tell me about those cheese and eggs I hear him say Cheese Eggs Dinner Dinner Then I begin to hear him tell me about Emry I love you Emry, I love you true Love you, Emry, tell the world I do 'Em

Wake up mama, turn your lamp down low Wake up mama, turn your lamp down low Have you got the nerve to drive Papa McTell from your door My mother died and left me reckless My daddy died and left me wild, wild, wild Mother died and left me reckless Daddy died and left me wild, wild, wild No, I'm not good lookin' I'm some sweet woman's Angel child You're a mighty mean woman, to do me this a way You're a mighty mean woman, to do me this a way When I leave this town, pretty mama, I'm going away to stay While I loved a woman, better than even I'd ever seen I once loved a woman, better than even I'd ever seen Treat me like I was a king and she was a doggone queen Sister, tell your brother, brother tell your auntie now Auntie tell your uncle, uncle tell my cousin now, cousin tell my friend Goin' up the country, mama, don't you want to go? May take me a fair brown, may take me one or two more Big Eighty left Savannah, Lord, and did not stop You ought to saw that colored fireman when he got that boiler hot You can reach over in the corner mama and hand me my travelin' shoes You know by that, I've got them Statesboro blues Mama, sister got 'em, auntie got 'em Brother got 'em, friend got 'em, I got 'em Woke up this morning, we had them Statesboro blues I looked over in the corner, grandpa and grandma had 'em too