BLUES EXPRESS

THE BLUES EXPRESS
CAME DOWN FROM MEMPHIS
TELLING TALES OF TROUBLE IN THE COTTON FIELDS

WORKERS SANG TO RELIEVE THEIR TENSIONS
OF BEING OVERWORKED AND UNDERPAID
EARLY VOICES TOLD MANY STORIES
WAS FROM THERE THE FOUNDATIONS WERE LAID

THE BLUES EXPRESS
TRAVELLED STATE TO STATE
STORIES KEPT ON GROWING WITH EVERY BORDER IT CROSSED

HEAR ITS RHYTHM ROLLING DOWN THE TRACK
MANY PLAYERS BOARDED ADDING THEIR NAME
THROUGH ITS TRAVELS IT'S TOOK MANY STYLES
THOUGH MANY WAYS IT’S REMAINED THE SAME

THE BLUES EXPRESS
WOULD STOP FOR NOTHING
FROM THOSE SMALL BEGINNINGS IT TRAVELLED AROUND THE WORLD

IN THOSE EARLY DAYS SO LONG AGO
IT HAD YET TO BECOME SO RENOWN
NOW THESE DAYS IN BARS ACROSS THE GLOBE
LISTEN TO ALL THE BANDS LAY IT DOWN

THE BLUES EXPRESS
JUMP ON BOARD AND TAKE A RIDE
THE BLUES EXPRESS
CAST YOUR TROUBLES ASIDE
THE BLUES EXPRESS
THERE’S NO WHERE YOU CAN HIDE
THE BLUES EXPRESS
IT'S JOURNEYED FAR AND WIDE

THE BLUES EXPRESS
THE BLUES EXPRESS
YEH THE BLUES EXPRESS
IT'S JOURNEYED FAR AND WIDE

WRITTEN BY
Roger Penkethman

22/09/2016