We Go Back (feat. Mavis Staples)

Cup of coffee cost a nickel

Newspaper sold for a dime

A dollar bought a pack of smokes

And a bottle of mad dog wine

We go back

When the blues was everywhere

We go back

Fightin' hard to get our share

Times were bad, what a time we had

We go back, way, way back

On a balcony in Memphis

April 1968

I never will forget

What happened on that date

We go back

When the blues was everywhere

We go back

Fightin' to get our share

Times were bad, but what a time we had

We go back, way, way, way back

I can see it in my mind

I can still hear it in my ears

The crying and the dying

The hell it took to get us here

We go back

When the blues was everywhere

We go back, go back, go back

Fightin' to get our share

Times were bad, but what a time we had

We go back

We go back

We go way, way back

I wanna go back to home town

Where my grandmother was

Living in my good of home

Right on Highway 61

We had such a hard time

Oh, but we, we made it, we made it

We have faith and grace

We believed we could make it

And we did

(Take me back) back in the day

I remember when, oh yeah

Buddy, do you remember? (Mmm)

We go back