Evening Prayer Blues (Revisited)

I was working in the yard
I was just-a-running chores
But when they heard me play I didn’t do much of any good work no more I’d be playing in the house
With a coat and leather shoes
I was standing in the corner and they’d ask me “Won’t you play the Evening Prayer Blues”

Just this little harp
Carried me on down the road
And in 25, it took me way downtown playing on the radio I worked with Judge D Hay
I ran the roads with Monroe too
And every night he’d say DeFord “Wont you play the Evening Prayer Blues”

Back in 41
The Grand Ole Opry let me go
They said that folks were tired, of the same old tunes but the truth I’ll never know Just an old black man
But I finally got my dues
Cause they’re ain’t no one, gonna beat me playing that old “Evening Prayer Blues”