Traditional Bluegrass Music

Songs & Tunes with Lyrics Sheet Music, Chords & Midi

Home Bluegrass Songs Index Main Menu Singing & Playing Order & Order Info Support Search



Share page  Visit Us On FB

Worried Man Blues TML # 011249
Click Play Speed Slow 1/4=110 Medium 1/4=160 Fast 1/4=210

This song was one of the folk hits of the 60's. A version was first popularised by the Carter family and again later by Flatt and Scruggs and Woody Guthrie.
Chorus

It takes a worried man to sing a worried song,
It takes a worried man to sing a worried song,
It takes a worried man to sing a worried song,
I'm worried now but I won't be worried long.

I went across the river and I laid down to sleep (x 3)
When I awoke I had shackles on my feet.
Twenty on links of chain around my leg (x 3)
Twenty one years on the Rocky Mountain Line.

If any one should ask you who composed this song (x 3)
Tell him it was I and I sing it the whole day long.
This royalty free score was generated by the Traditional Music Library On Line Tunebook (Shareware Version). As-is copies of this score may be freely distributed. Further info from WWW.TRADITIONALMUSIC.CO.UK