I'm left, you're right, and she's gone. You're right, and I'm left all alone.
Fame and fortune, how empty they can be.
I'm not kidding myself. My voice alone is just an ordinary voice. What people come to see is how I use it. If I stand still while I'm singing, I'm dead, man. I might as well go back to driving a truck.
Do what's right for you, so long as it don't hurt no one.
Didja ever get one of them girls who just wants to watch the show?
The colored folks been singing it and playing it just like I'm doin' now, man, for more years than I know. I got it from them.