Sporting Life Blues

I'm gettin' tired of hangin' around

Think I will marry and settle down

'Cause this old night life

This old sportin' life is killing me

I got a letter from my home

Most of my friends are dead and gone

I began to worry

I began to wonder about days to come

My mother used to talk to me

I was young and foolish and could not see

Now I got no mother

My sisters and my brothers don't care for me

I swear I'm gonna change my ways

I'm gettin' older every day

When I was young and foolish

It was so easy to run out and play

I'm gettin' tired of hangin' round

Think I will marry and settle down

'Cause this old night life

This old sportin' life is killin' me

This old night life

This old sportin' life is killin' me