When I was low down, out in the streets
I broke my own heart to give you a piece,
Oh but now I can tell,
I was trapped by your spell,
and that mojo don't work on me
'Cause I been near, I been far,
I seen the light and I seen the dark,
and you know there were sometimes I lost my way
Oh but now I can see
how sweet life can be,
and I'm a'sing these old blues on away!
I was feeling all alone,
'till I heard that saxophone
playing loud enough to wake the dead.
Sure 'nough I got to my feet,
movin' to the funky beat
with a message that got to my head
O they were marchin' and a struttin' -burnin' up the block,
I was runnin' toward nothin' till they made me stop,
and they took me out of this strange land.
Well all I needed was a stranger's hand!
So everybody spread the news:
We're blowin' hot and cool,
and we're commin right to your town!
I said I wantchya to get down!
('Cause I been near, I been far,
I seen the light and I seen the dark,
and you know there were sometimes I lost my way
Oh but now I can see
how sweet life can be,
and I'm a'sing these old blues on away!)X4
Grat-doot-doo,
Grat-doot-doo,
Zoo-ba-doo-bap!
credits
from Stranger's Hand,
released January 18, 2016
Composers..........................Corey Kilgarriff/Trevor BerryAlex Lyons
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