Album: The Blues Collection: Tampa Red, The Guitar Wizard
Travel On Trk 11 Dsc 2 2:34 song 34
Tampa Red (Hudson Whittaker)
Aurora, Illinois, Oct 11, 1937 Leland Hotel Top Floor
Tampa Red- vocal, piano & guitar, Willie Bee James - guitar
Album: The Bluebird Recordings - Tampa Red 1936 - 1938
2 Disc set RCA 07863 66722-2 1997 BMG
When you are doing
The best you can
And the one you loving
Don't understand
Don't get discouranged
But keep-a tryin' and travel on
You're bound to worry
Ev'ry now and then
But keep on trying
You are bound to win
Don't get discouranged
But keep-a tryin' and travel on
If you stay worried
Most all the time
Just try laughing instead of cryin'
Don't get discouraged
But keep-a tryin' and travel on
'Yas, yas'
(instrumental) slide guitar
Yo' darkest hour is just before day
That's when your sorrows
Will vanish away
Don't get discouranged
But keep-a tryin' and travel on
When you get worried
And feel so blue
Remember this song, I
Have sung to you
Don't get discouranged
But keep-a tryin' and travel on