There's a baby crying, A new born who won't be content   When he becomes a man he'll wonder where his childhood went    He'll feel the pain of life,    Choke his last breath Life is no bed of roses      Chorus   Life is the blues   Nothing we can do   Life is the blues      Verse      The last time he saw his wife she was marching out to sea   He was cruel and crazy, She was beautiful, She's been set free    Lines on her face The pain of reality    He broke her hearty then left her alone to be      Chorus      Life is the blues   Nothing we can do   Life is the blues   Nothing more to lose      All this guilt he holds within he let her slip away   It's to late to say those things she needed to hear him say   He never said I love you I want you to stay   He'd give his soul to relive that day   He heard his son singing