There's a baby crying, A new born who won't be content

When he becomes a man he'll wonder where his childhood went

He'll feel the pain of life,

Choke his last breath Life is no bed of roses

Chorus

Life is the blues

Nothing we can do

Life is the blues

Verse

The last time he saw his wife she was marching out to sea

He was cruel and crazy, She was beautiful, She's been set free

Lines on her face The pain of reality

He broke her hearty then left her alone to be

Chorus

Life is the blues

Nothing we can do

Life is the blues

Nothing more to lose

All this guilt he holds within he let her slip away

It's to late to say those things she needed to hear him say

He never said I love you I want you to stay

He'd give his soul to relive that day

He heard his son singing