I was ten years old when Jimi Hendrix died Way too young to know that I should've cried But a dark cloud covered up the summer sky Call that voodoo child home And the blues keeps movin' on Lord. it's ten years gone ♪ I was twenty years old when John Lennon died Way too stoned to know that I should've cried A cold December on the lonely side Just draggin', got stupified And the blues keeps movin' on
Lord, it's ten years gone Gone ♪ I was thirty years old when Stevie Ray died Stone cold, sober and I stood there and cried When the mountain, a steel death trap Lord, they came and took Stevie Ray back And the blues keeps movin' on Lord, it's ten years gone ♪ I was forty years old when Willie Dixon died Little red rooster done said goodbye A mountain of blues and the big hollow net That Willie done gone to the promised land And the blues keeps movin' on Lord, it's ten years gone Gone
Now I'm fifty years old, I'm alive and well My soul's in heaven while my body's in hell Twenty years left, give or take a few I'll tell you what I'm gonna do ♪ Yeah what I'm gonna do ♪ And the blues is a-movin' on
Another ten years gone The blues is movin' on Another ten years gone The blues is movin' on Another ten years gone ♪ Ten years gone ♪ Ten years gone Another, another, another Just another, just another, just another, just another Just another ten years gone Just another ten years gone Just another ten years gone Just another ten years gone Just another ten years gone Just another ten years gone Just another ten years gone (Just another ten years gone)