Wolf's Story

People call blues, call blues B-L-U-E-S

You can sing the blues in church if you use the voice right
Your voice and the words, the meaning
Now it's called what you have on your heart
But the start of it, even the Bible tell you
Blessed is the pure in heart

Some people had the blues so hard
They go to the river and jump overboard and drown themselves
And some kill, cut each other's throat
Do anything

Anything that you get in your mind
And your mind tells you that you can't do it
Don't try it
Think twice and speak once sometimes

Any time this girl would ask me
"Mr. Wolf, what make your teeth so big?"
He said, "The better I can eat you, my dear"
And say, "What make your eyes so red?"
"The better I can see you, my dear"
And then they finally killed a wolf and drove him up to the house
You know, they showed me the wolf
And I told him it was a dog
He said, "No, that's a wolf"
I said, "Well, what does a wolf do? Does he howl?"
He said, "Awoo"
And so I got afraid of the wolf, you know
And every time I'd kill some of my mother's chickens
He said, "Awoo"
So then that'd scare me, you know
And it made me mad, you see, that they called me wolf
And I gets mad about this
So they just kept on calling me wolf
And I got to this place I didn't care what they called me
They can call me anything they want, you know what I mean

At first I was afraid of the wolf, you know
Oh, I was three years old then, you know