Odetta - Empty Pocket Blues Lyrics

Lyrics Empty Pocket Blues - Odetta




I never had a pocket full of money
I never had a ruby red ring
All I ever had was you, babe
To sit and listen to me sing
I got the blues, the empty pocket blues
And I never had a barrel full of money
Never had a big Cadillac
All I ever had was you, babe
And that's a fact, I got the blues
The empty pocket blues
Some people got barrels of money
Bushels of ruby red rings
But they ain't got a man like mine
And they don't know how to sing
I got the blues, the empty pocket blues
Now some say the blues are sorrowful
Some say the blues are sad
But when I sing the blues to you
They come out feelin' glad
I got the blues, the empty pocket blues
Now don't put your money in a barrel
Don't waste it on a ruby red ring
Give it all to your own little girl
To fix your dinner while you sing
I got the blues, the empty pocket blues
I got the blues
The empty pocket blues



Writer(s): Unknown


Odetta - The Complete Collection: 1954 - 1962
Album The Complete Collection: 1954 - 1962
date of release
17-02-2014

1 John Henry (1954)
2 Oh, My Baby
3 Old Cotton Fields At Home
4 Yonder Comes The Blues
5 The Frozen Logger (1954)
6 Make Me A Pallet On The Floor
7 Run, Come See Jerusalem
8 Weeping Willow Blues
9 Old Blue
10 Go Down Sunshine
11 Water Boy
12 Nobody Knows You When You're Down And Out
13 Santy Anno (1954)
14 Gonna Take My Time
15 I Was Born About 10,000 Years Ago
16 Stranger Here
17 Riding My Car (Car Song)
18 I've Been Living With the Blues
19 No More Cane on the Brazos (1954)
20 Be My Woman
21 Payday at Coal Creek (1954)
22 Poor Man
23 Buked and Scorned (1954)
24 Empty Pocket Blues
25 Rock Island Line
26 i Just Can't Keep from Cryin'
27 Santy Anno (1956)
28 Special Delivery
29 If I Had a Ribbon Bow
30 If I Had Wings
31 Muleskinner Blues
32 Darlin' Baby
33 Another Man Done Gone (1956)
34 Misery Blues
35 Shame and Scandal
36 House of the Rising Sun
37 Jack O' Diamond
38 Let Me Ride (Live)
39 Buked and Scorned (1956)
40 The Fox (1962) [Live]
41 Easy Rider
42 Santa Anno (1962) [Live]
43 Joshua
44 Devilish Mary (1962) [Live]
45 Hound Dog (1956)
46 Another Man Done Gone (1962) [Live]
47 Glory, Glory
48 Children's Trilogy (Live)
49 Alabama Bound
50 He Had a Long Chain On (Live)
51 Been in the Pen
52 He's Got the Whole World in His Hands (1962) [Live]
53 Deep Blue Sea
54 Take This Hammer (1962) [Live]
55 Ox Driver (Live)
56 God's Gonna Cut You Down
57 Spiritual Trilogy: Oh Freedom / Come and Go With Me / I'm On My Way
58 Hound Dog (1962) [Live]
59 He's Got the Whole World in His Hands (1957)
60 Carrie It Back to Rosie (Live)
61 Sail Away Ladies
62 What Month Was Jesus Born In? (1962) [Live]
63 The Gallows Pole
64 The Frozen Logger (1962) [Live]
65 Lowlands
66 Timber (1962) [Live]
67 The Fox (1957)
68 Freedom Trilogy (Live)
69 Maybe She Go
70 The Lass from the Low Countree
71 Timber (1957)
72 Deep River
73 Chilly Winds
74 Greensleeves
75 Devilish Mary (1957)
76 All the Pretty Little Horses (1957)
77 The Midnight Special
78 Take This Hammer (1957)
79 Poor Little Jesus (1959)
80 Bald Headed Woman
81 Motherless Children
82 I Know Where I'm Going
83 The Foggy Dew
84 I've Been Driving on Bald Mountain
85 Ox-Driver Song
86 Down On Me
87 Saro Jane
88 Three Pigs
89 No More Cane on the Brazos (1959)
90 Jumpin' Judy
91 Battle Hymn of the Republic
92 Ballad for Americans
93 This Land
94 On The Top Of Old Smokey
95 Hush Little Baby .
96 Dark as a Dungeon
97 Great Historical Bum
98 Payday at Coal Creek (1960)
99 Going Home
100 Pastures of Plenty
101 If I Had a Hammer - Live
102 Red Clay Country (Live)
103 When I Was a Young Girl - Live
104 The Gallow's Pole (1960) [Live]
105 God's A-Gonna Cut You Down - Live
106 John Riley - Live
107 John Henry (1960) [Live]
108 Joshua Fought the Battle of Jericho (Live)
109 All the Pretty Little Horses (1960) [Live]
110 Prettiest Train - Live
111 Meeting at the Building - Live
112 No More Auction Block (Live)
113 Hold On - Live
114 Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child - Live
115 Ain't No Grave Can Hold My Body (Live)
116 Rise Up, Shepherd, And Follow
117 What Month Was Jesus Born In (1960)
118 Mary Had a Baby
119 Somebody's Talking 'bout Jesus
120 Virgin Mary Had One Son
121 Go Tell It On the Mountain
122 Shout for Joy
123 Poor Little Jesus (1960)
124 O Jerusalem
125 Ain't That a-Rockin
126 If Anybody Asks You
127 Beautiful Star
128 Children, Go Where I Send Thee
129 Hard, Oh Lord
130 Believe I'll Go
131 Oh, Papa
132 How Long Blues
133 Hogan's Alley
134 Leavin' This Mornin'




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