| Blues stay away from me | |
| Uh-uh-uh, blues why don't you let me be | |
| I don't know why you keep a-hauntin' me. | |
| True love was never meant for me. | |
| True love was never meant for me. | |
| It seems somehow we never can agree. | |
| My life is full of misery | |
| And dreams are like a memory, | |
| They're bringing back your love that used to be. | |
| I got teardrops so many | |
| I can't see | |
| And years don't mean a thing to me | |
| But time goes by and still | |
| I can't be free. | |
| Uh-uh-uh, blues stay away from me, | |
| You hear me, blues why don't you let me be, | |
| I don't know why you keep a-haunting me, | |
| No, I don't know why you keep a-haunting me, | |
| Oh, I don't know why you keep a-haunting me. |