Mean Old World (Take 1) - Big Bill Broonzy

Sometime I get disgusted yeah

My mind goes up and down

Yes sometime I get disgusted yeah

And my mind goes up and down

Yeah my woman has quit me

Now my buddies hangin' around

This is a mean old world to live in

I'm just travelin' through

It's a mean old world to live in

I'm just travelin' through

Yes sometime I get so blue

That I don't know what to do

Yeah they want I crazy above

My people hate to hear who name

Yeah they want I crazy above

My people hate to hear who name

Yeah what crazy in my heart

When they called her who name

I've been on the North

All over the Southern states

Yes I've been in the North

All over the Southern states

Yes people it ain't the world

'Cause the good Lord

Made it straight yeah

What's for poor me to do

Yeah what's for poor me to do

Yeah it sets my mother praying

I hope she prays for me not you