Ninety-Nine Years Blues - Jimmie Rodgers

Lawd these ninety nine blues ain’t no fancy dream

If you had two lives to live you’d know just what I mean

When the judge read the verdict it nearly knocked me down

Said boy you got two six’s they’re all upside down

It ain’t the days I’ve been here it’s the days I got to stay

All the old friends I ever had done shook hands and gone away

My good gal told me the day I hit this can

You’ve made your bed in sorrow now sleep on it like a man

Ninety nine and ninety nine make one hundred and ninety eight

That’s four years pretty normal than you can figure up on your slate

I don’t know what else is in the world to lose

Cause I’ve lost everything except these ninety nine blues