You see, there’s some blues for folks ain’t never had a thing, and that’s a sad blues … but the saddest kind of blues is for them that’s had everything they ever wanted and has lost it, and knows it won’t come back no more. Ain’t no sufferin’ in this world worse than that; and that’s the blue we call ‘I Had It But It’s All Gone Now.

You see, there’s some blues for folks ain’t never had a thing, and that’s a sad blues … but the saddest kind of blues is for them that’s had everything they ever wanted and has lost it, and knows it won’t come back no more. Ain’t no sufferin’ in this world worse than that; and that’s the blue we call ‘I Had It But It’s All Gone Now.

– Ken Grimwood –

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