Here’s one we’ve been meaning to get to for a while, the title track off bluesman Tas Cru‘s latest CD. Inspired by a comment from a young blues fan who “noted that she likes the blues but gets weary of bluesmen crying about all of their misfortunes,” it’s a hard-driving number featuring Cru’s famous Tejano cigar box slide along with some rather tongue-in-cheek lyrics, but we’re not at all tired of it.
Plus, we have to say we really dig the album’s cover!
“I’m tired of bluesmen cryin’
just ’cause some woman left them cold.
So tired of bluesmen cryin’
just because some woman left them cold.
I’m sick of all that cryin’ ’bout losin’ everything they own.
My baby, she don’t love me,
tears be rollin’ down my face.
My baby, she don’t love me,
no tears be runnin’ down my face.
I got me nine or ten more women
just linin’ up to take her place…
You say what about the children,
who’s gonna’ feed that family?
Gotta’ find some dadda –
ain’t but one child lookin’ like me.
So tired of bluesmen cryin’
just ’cause some woman left them cold.
Yea, I’m sick of all that cryin’ ’bout losin’ everything they own.
Yea, I’m tired of bluesmen cryin’ about breakin’ up their happy home.
(I’m tired of it all)
Tired of bluesmen cryin’ just because their woman’s gone.
I’m tired of bluesmen cryin’ ’cause their woman is gone.”
– Tired of Bluesmen Cryin’, Tas Cru