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After Jimmy Rogers

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Woke up this mornin’ with a tickle in my throat. (Lawd, Lawd!)

Woke this mornin’ with a tickle in my throat.

 I said to myself: “Oh God, that’s all she wrote.”

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By that noon, I was coughin’ frequently.

And by that night, I coughin’ constantly,

Barkin’ like a dog at a cat up in a tree.

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I got the CO (cough, cough) PD (cough, cough) blu-u-u-u-s! 

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When I gets to coughin’, I gets so out of breath. (Good God!)

When I gets to coughin”, I gets so out of breath.

And that’s, good peoples, when I contemplates my death.

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My lungs, they rattles, like an old-time coffee pot.

My lungs, they rattles, like an old-time coffee pot.

My eyes, they’s runny and my nose is full of snot.

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I got the CO (cough, cough) PD (cough, cough) blu-u-u-u-s!

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I probly got this from all them cigarettes I smoked.

I probly got this from all them cigarettes I smoked.

They killed my father and they just might make me croak.

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Then there was these fires out in Idaho.

Two years fightin’ fires out in Idaho.

Another reason, good peoples, that I gets to huff and blow.

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I got the CO (cough, cough) PD (cough, cough) blu-u-u-u-s!

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Might start with a head cold, might start with allergies. (Oh, Lawd!)

Might start with head cold, might start with allergies.

Don’t take much these days to make me cough and wheeze.

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But it makes no difference, not one goddamn bit.

It makes no difference, not one goddamn bit.

Whatever the reasons, I gots to live with it.

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Or not.

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I got the CO (cough, cough) PD (cough, cough) blu-u-u-u-s! 

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(If you want to hear the tune, go to YouTube for Jimmy Roger’s “TB Blues.”)