I'm a no good writer

Longtime ago when I was young

I bought a guitar, in the little shop in town

Then I went home and practiced every day

And not before too long I started writing songs that I would play



Everyone who heard my songs

Told me that it wouldn't be too long

Before I would be a famous music writer



And every night I sat alone listen to the radio

And then I thought soon it will be my turn

Each night when folks came to my place

I picked my guitar up and played the songs I've made



I was told I'd be a millionaire

And when they heard my songs they said it

won't be too long until you're there



Worn out shoes still got the blues

Every day now is a fight I lose

I guess I turned out to be a lousy fighter



When I came to this big town

All important people put me down

And I was told I'm a no good writer



All the letters that I write to my folks are full of

lies when I writing about the fortune that I made

When I left my mama said silly boy don't lose

your head, now I'm wishing by my god that I had stayed



Longtime ago when I was young

I bought a guitar in the little shop in town

, its old and tired strings

It sounds so sad and wrong just like the lonely songs I always sing



Worn out shoes still got the blues

Every day now is a fight I lose

I guess I turn out to be a lousy fighter



When I came to this big town

All important people put me down

And I was told I'm a no good writer



Worn out shoes still got the blues