Travellin' Blues - Carmen McRae (卡门·麦克蕾)

I've travelled across the country

I've sung with lots of bands

I've played in those big cities

That book those one-night stands

I'm lonely and I'm weary

I know the scene so well

The blues have come to get me

And to drag me down to hell

But I keep travelling

What have I got to lose

I keep travelling

Unravelling all my blues

I check into a hotel

And then forget its name;

Yes I could ask but oh well

Aren't all hotels the same

Sink into the mattress

Pray God my soul to keep;

The blues are in the street

Cries that haunt my troubles sleep

But I keep travelling

What have I got to lose

I just keep on

Unravelling all my blues

I wake up every morning

Wonder where I'm at;

I look into the mirror

And ask myself "Who's that "

I left behind a good man

A face I can't recall

And yet I love my old man

Or no man's been love at all

But I keep on travelling

What have I got to lose

Just keep on travelling

Unravelling all my blues

I know the blues confuse me

Hold me in their trap;

They meet me and they lose me

While round ny brain they wrap

A web of lonely journeys

All spun from evil thread

That twist and turn and tangle me

Until my soul is dead

Ooh-oo-oo but I keep travelling

What have I got to lose

I just keep travelling

Trying to lose all my blues