The Blues Is Just a Bad Dream

[Verse 1]

A tree grows in my backyard

It only grows at night

Its branches, they're all twisted

Its leaves are afraid of light

[Chorus]

They say them blues is just a bad dream

They say it lives upside your head

But when it's lonely in the morning

You're bound to wish that you was lyin' dead

[Verse 2]

There's winds out on the ocean

They're blowin' just as they choose

But them winds ain't got no emotion, baby

They don't know the blues

[Chorus]

They say them blues is just a bad dream

They say it lives upside your head

But when it's lone, lonely in the morning

You're bound to wish that you was lyin' dead

[Verse 3]

My mind's ramblin' and ramblin'

Just like some a-rolling stone, no

Since that nightmare come to stay with me, baby

My thoughts just don't belong

[Chorus]

They say them blues is just a bad dream, babe

They say it lives upside your head, hey hey

But when they visit you around midnight

You're bound to wish that you were lyin' dead