VERSE Try your pills and powders Take your drugs of every kind Try your luck with liquor Try your luck with beer and wine CHORUS You can try Try it any way you choose You can try it if you want to But it's no use runnin' from the blues VERSE You tried to throw a party And the invitations read All your friends invited But the blues showed up instead (REPEAT CHORUS) (INSTRUMENTAL BREAK) VERSE You flown down to Jamaica And you walked on off the plane Blues stepped up to greet ya And he smiled and shook your hand (REPEAT CHORUS) VERSE It ain't no superstition, child The blues is really real Get yourself together Got to deal with how you feel (REPEAT CHORUS) (INSTRUMENTAL OUT) Steve Forbert Welk Music (ASCAP)/ Rolling Tide Music (ASCAP)