NEWPORT BLUES

Lyrics by Langston Hughes--Music by Otis Spann
Writen at Newport on the afternoon of Sunday, July 3, 1960

IT'S A GLDOMY DAY AT NEWPORT,
IT'S A GLOomy, GLOMy DAY.

(Repeat)

IT'S A GLDOMY DAY AT NEWPORT,
THE MUSIC'S GOING AWAY.

WHAT'S GONNA HAPPEN TO MY MUSIC?
WHAT'S GONNA HAPPEN TO MY SONG?

(Repeat)

IT'S A HARD, HARD WORLD WE LIVE IN,
AND IT'S BEEN HARD SO LONG.

TO DROWN IN MY OWN TEARS
COULD BE THE ENDING OF THIS BLUES.

(Repeat)

BUT YOU'LL NEVER SEE ME DROWNING,
SO PICK UP ON THE NEWS---

I GOT TO KEEP ON SINGING
THOUGH I GOT THE NREPORT BLUES---
THOSE SAD, BAD, GOODBYE NEWPORT BLUES.

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