Standard (EADGBE)

He’s just a singer, a natural born guitar ringer

 Kind of a clinger to sad old songs

 He’s not a walk behinder, he’s a new note finder

 But his names a reminder of a blues man that’s already gone

 So he started drinkin’, took some things that messed up his thinkin’

 He was sure sinkin’ when she came along

 He was alone in the spot light, not too much left in sight

 She changed all that one night when she sang him this song

(chorus)

Hey baby I love you, Hey baby I need you

 Hey baby you ain’t got to prove to me you’re some kind of macho man

 You’ve wasted so much of your life, runnin’ through the dark nights

 Let me shine a little love light, down on that blues man.

He got so sick from speedin’, all the things they said he was needin’

 If he was to keep on pleasin’ all of his fans

 He got cuffed on dirt roads, he got sued over no shows

 She came an took all that old load down off that old blues man

And he sang…

(chorus)

Hey baby I love you too, Hey baby I need you

 Hey baby I do get tired of this travelin’ band

 I’m over forty years old now, nights would be cold now

 If you hadn’t stuck it out with this blues man

 He’s over forty years old now, nights would be so cold now

 If she hadn’t hung around with that blues man.

(Solo)