Prescription For The Blues
Skeeter Davis
Video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rh4ZXO6GuBs Key A capo 2 [Intro] * * * [Verse 1] All day long I wor-or-ry All night long I’m blue I feel so awfully lo-onesome I don’t know what to do [Chorus] And so I ask you doctor to see if you can find Something in your sachet to pacify my mind Oh doctor doctor Write me a prescription for the blues I’ve got the blues [Verse 2] Let me tell you do-octor Why I’m in misery Once I had a lover He went away from me [Chorus] I went to see the egyptian and the voodoo doctors too They shook their heads and told me There was nothing they could do Oh doctor doctor Why not write me a prescription for the blues [Verse 3] Just like a little ba-aby All night long I cry Now doctor if you can’t cur-ure me Why I just as soon to die [Chorus] So give me something poison Doctor won’t you please And then I’ll sign a paper saying I die with heart disease Oh doctor doctor Write me a prescription for the blues