No Headstone to Remember Me
inspired by the life and music of
bluesman Belton Sutherland
bluesman Belton Sutherland
Got no place to call my own
An unmarked grave my eternal home
My farewell bouquet a spray of unkempt weeds
And no headstone to remember me
'I Got Trouble' told the story of where I'd been
and what I'd seen in my hardscrabble life
Yet it couldn't tell you all the stuff held in -
the hopes and dreams that never saw light
But on those hot and sweltry Delta summer nights
you could pull up a porch chair. shut your eyes, listen close
You'd hear us sing the blues, so real, so right
from hearts that had loved and lost more than most
And now I've....
Got no place to call my own
An unmarked grave my eternal home
My farewell bouquet a spray of unkempt weeds
And no headstone to remember me
bjw
april 2017
