You Can't Take My Blues

Closing Session with a Song

You know, this feels so good to me.
I think I'll do a song of mine and we'll close this session right now with a little song of mine. I'll show you how it all goes together.

Song Introduction

• Title: You Can't Take My Blues

There's a song called You Can't Take My Blues,
and we're gonna make a sound just like this on this DVD for you:

"You can take my money, take my car,
take my woman, if you can get that far.
There's only two things you can't do:
You can't walk where I walk, partner.
You ain't gonna take my boo."

You can take my bourbon, take my beer,
take yourself right on out of here.
There's only two things you can't do:

"You can't walk where I walk,
and you ain't never gonna take my blues, man."

Performance Notes

I gotta be careful,
because the stool's squeaking a little bit, but that's alright.

You can take my snap, take my stash.
You even take what she used to have.
There's only two things that you can't do:

"You can't walk where I walk,
and you ain't never gonna take my blues, man."

Now I'm gonna roll to the solo section.
Remember those things I told you?
Now see if I can't keep that in my mind
and make some good music for you here.
Keep the groove!

Continuing the Song

Yeah, you can take my song, take my guitar.
Fireflies die when they're trapped in the jar.
There's only two things you can't do:

"You can't walk where I walk, man.
You ain't gonna take my blues."

You take the credit, you should take the blame.
You're acting like a heavyweight,
and I know you're small change.
Only two things you can't do:

"You can't walk where I walk,
and you ain't never gonna take these blues."

Conclusion

Well, I think that will do it for this segment.
Keep those things I taught you in mind,
because we're gonna be using those
as we go on with this DVD.

Feel free to go back, check out everything
that you got on this thing: right hand, left hand,
use that technology.
Then you come on back,
and we'll go on and do a 12-bar blues
and see what kind of adventures
we can get into in there.

"You can't take my blues."