My baby loved to hear this guitar blue   My baby loved to hear this guitar blue   But now she's gone I'm lonesome lonesome to      (play that thing boy)      Evertime you make that lonesome sound   Evertime you make that lonesome sound   I wish to the lord I was six feet under the ground      (Make it cry boy)      Everythime you slide that guitar string   Everythime you slide that guitar string   It breaks my heart cause sure don't sound the same      (Go way up on the neck of it now boy   Thats the way make it cry)      Thought I heard that steel guitar a crying   Thought I heard that steel guitar a crying   My mind goes back to the day my girl was dying      (Play that boy   Play that old base too, red)