Here’s hoping that Saturday’s Kentucky Derby results turned out better for you than Ervin “Big Boy” Groves concludes in the lyrics to this blues rarity.
“If I could pick a horse
to win, place, or show,
I wouldn’t be so broke,
hungry n’ po’
But I done lost so much money
playin’ ’em across the board,
That I wouldn’t bet on Silver
if the Lone Ranger rode.
Oh, you can’t beat the horses
no matter how you try,
You can’t beat the horses,
They’ll break you by and by.”
–You Can’t Beat the Horses, Big Boy Groves