Things Could Be Worse For Me

Yesterday, y'all, about a half past three

I took a walk, yeah, to see what I could see

I was feeling bad, down as I could be (Well)

'Til I saw some folk looking sadder than me

One man was lame (Lame), didn't know his name (Name)

One was blind (Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah), didn't own a dime, no

Hey, but I know that

Things could be worse for me

So I won't cry

Things could be worse for me

So I won't cry

I'm gonna hush and not complain

I won't sigh (No, I won't sigh)

When my days are blue (Days are blue)

And I start to cry (I just stop those tears and here is why)

Mm, many things (Many things)

I have not (I have not)

No (No), no (No), no (No), no

Things could be worse for me

So I won't cry, I won't shed a tear, no

Things could be worse for me

So I won't cry, no, I won't shed a tear, no

I'm gonna hush my words (Not complain)

I won't sigh (No, I won't sigh)

Listen to 'em

I kept on walking 'til I met some old, old friends (How then?)

And when I asked them (How they been? What they seen?)

You know they grumbled how life was getting 'em down

Until they made my mountains like a little mountain

They were sick and sad (Sad), feeling bad (Bad)

Nothing to give (Yeah, yeah, yeah), not a will to live, no, no, no

(But I know that) I know that things could be worse for me

Oh, but I won't cry, no

I'm gonna hush, not complain

I won't sigh (No, I won't sigh), listen to me, I won't sigh

Things could be worse for me

Things could be worse for me

Things could be worse for me

Wait a minute, I wanna tell you a little story

I remember walking down a long, bumpy road one day

And I had holes in my shoes

And whenever I took a little step

I could feel those rocks hurt my feet, yeah, yeah

And I began to complain about it

Until I looked beside me

And I saw a little old man rolling on his cart

With no legs at all, oh, Lord

(Things could be worse for me)

That's when I realized, yeah

(Things could be worse for me)

I could be blind

(Things could be worse for me)

Unable to walk, yeah

(Things could be worse for me)

I could be deaf, deaf, deaf

(Things could be worse for me)

Unable to talk, yeah

(Things could be worse for me)

I could be deaf

(Things could be worse for me)

Sleeping in my grave

(Things could be worse for me)

I could be burned

(Things could be worse for me)

Burned just like a flame

(Things could be worse for me)

I know that

(Things could be worse for me)

I know that

(Things could be worse for me)

Lord, yeah

(Things could be worse for me)

Yeah

(Things could be worse for me)

Oh, woo

(Things could be worse for me)

(Woo)

(Things could be worse for me)

(Woo, woo, woo)

(Things could be worse for me)

(Woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo)