Dolores’ Blues

my name is Dolores
sorrow is my middle name
my name is Dolores
sorrow is my middle name
if I hadn’t been born
I wouldn’t have nobody to blame
my name is Dolores
but my blues don’t right no wrongs
my middle name is Dolores
my blues don’t right no wrongs
took my eyes off the road
and a mockingbird stole my song
sing a song of six pence
got my pockets full of rye
gonna stay right here in this spot
catch that black bird in a lie
my name is Dolores
sorrow is my middle name
sweet sun don’t shine in my life
it rains and rains and rains
you got me where you want me
and that I can’t deny
I’m running out of handkerchiefs
cuz all I do is cry
my name is Dolores
sorrow is my middle name
if I hadn’t been born
I wouldn’t have nobody to blame
my name is Dolores
I think I’ll change my name
my name is Dolores
I’m gonna change my name
change my clothes and change my mind
and leave the way I came.

Hermine Pinson