Long Gone Lonesome Blues sing and play along

I went down to the river to watch the fish swim by.

But I got to the river so lonesome I wanted to die.

Oh, Lord, and then I jumped in the river but the doggone river was dry.

She's long gone

and now I'm lonesome blues.

I had me a woman, she couldn't be true,

she made me for my money and she made me blue.

A man needs a woman that he can lean on,

but my leanin' post is done left and gone.

She's long gone

and now I'm lonesome blues.

Gonna find me a river, to one that's cold as ice.

When I find me that river so Lord,

I'm gonna ed the price.

Oh, Lord, I'm goin' down in it three times but I'm only comin' up twice.

She's long gone

and now I'm lonesome blues.

She told me on Sunday was checkin' me out;

along about my Monday she was nowhere bout.

And here it is Tuesday, ain't had can no news,

got them "gone" but not for done gotten blues.

She's long gone

and now I'm lonesome blues.

Gonna