When I get these blues, I just look back down that road   It's been a while since I laid down that load   These blues ain't nothin' like the blues I had   Before I paid a little debt I owed   When I get these blues, I just look back down that road      Everythin' I ever needed was on the shelf   Spent all of my time feelin' sorry for myself   I was driftin' and dreamin' and waitin'   And watchin' for a ship with a silver sail   But I got lucky and I woke up in jail      There is none so blind as he who will not see   And it's easy to see I could not see that was me   When he washed ashore   The drunken sailor was adrift in the city night   And you'd better believe, in the mornin' my burden was light      Well I don't know where I'm goin'   But I know where I've been   And there ain't no need to ever go back again   And my very worst days are so much better   Than the best I knew back then   And I thank the Lord that a loser can sometimes win   Yeah, I thank the Lord that a loser can sometimes win