Suitcase Blues

Album: Just a Game (1979)
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  • It's four in the morning,
    There's not a soul around
    This dirty hotel room
    Has really got me down
    A modern day minstrel,
    They got my name in lights
    I wish these days of glamor
    Didn't have these lonely nights
    I'm on the road to fortune
    And I got the suitcase blues real bad

    I guess I'm makin' payments
    For the dues that must be paid
    I cash another song
    Into this endless masquerade
    Halfway through the circuit
    And headed for the coast
    Been gone so long
    I can't remember
    What I miss the most, ah, but,
    Me and Johnny Walker,
    And the comfort that he brings,
    Waitin' on the telephone
    That never, ever rings
    On the lonely road to fortune,
    And I got the suitcase blues real bad

    I got the blues
    And I got them really bad
    The suitcase blues
    Are the worst I ever had
    All by my lonesome
    And I'm halfway 'round the bend
    I don't mind drinkin' solo
    But I sure could use a friend

    Me and Johnny Walker,
    And the comfort that he brings,
    Waitin' on the telephone
    That never, ever rings
    On the lonely road to fortune,
    And I got the suitcase blues real bad Writer/s: GIL MOORE, MIKE LEVINE, RIK EMMETT
    Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Group
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Comments: 2

  • Patrick Longworth from Okanagan Falls, British Columbia, CanadaI love this song and its blues to me. Thank you to Rik for pushing the boundaries of Triumph then flying on your own.
  • Baron from Lakewood,ohAm I nuts that this is my fave Triumph song?
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