WHITHER WHILE YOU'RE WANDERIN' BLUES are lyrics about those times when, as Richard Farina wrote: you've 'Been Down So Long, Down Looks Like Up To Me'...we are merely physical first and foremost, it turns out...our spirits LIVE...but out bodies give out here and there in not-so-very-nice ways, darn em, and ain't one thing you can really do over time to change that one...but maybe sing the Blues about it all!....

WITHER WHILE YOU'RE WANDERIN' BLUES

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I've been fadin' every day
Caught by frights and in harms way
Ain't quite happy Ain't quite sad
All I knows is: feelin' bad
Feelin' very - feelin' real bad
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Part is sickness part is pain -
Part is loss and none is gain -
None is good and none is right -
Like some weak rain in the night:
Nothin' good comes from this storm -
Won't soak the ground - and won't be warm...
Won't warm me, honey, won't be kind...
Don't want to pay me any mind -
I'm jus' witherin' on the vine...
Jus' witherin' on the vine, poor baby,
Witherin' on the vine....

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I've been wanderin' every which way -
Singin' easy - lovin' away...
Takin' succer where I can, Lord!
Livin' all I could afford...
Like some song bird in a sleet storm:
I can't raise my wings to fly-
Can't be braver than I am -
Won't be braver than I know how -
Won't rest easy till I be home...
Don't know 'bout gettin home at all-
Not be wanderin' any more....
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When you be old like I am, then
You may know years - know where you've been -
But you don't know death or the place
It's fixin' to stop your racin' round...
Like some hobo on that freight train
Headin' off to some kind town -
Hopin' to be well and cheerful -
Hopin' to find friends, warm rooms -
Hopin' to live on forever -
Not be witherin' while I'm wanderin'...
But be thrivin' - bein' strong -
Livin' on strong, all along..
Stronger, all along....
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