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Jeni Hankins & Billy Kemp: Listen & Lyrics

Ain't Got Time for Trouble Blues -- Click for Lyrics -- From our CD "Jewell Ridge Coal"

(Jeni, vocal & rhythm guitar -- Billy, harmony vocal & lead guitar)
2008-06-16
©2007 Jeni Hankins & Billy Kemp, BMI
Billy woke up one day with this melody in his head and we started working on the lyrics right away. It all came together pretty quickly and then we ate breakfast. But deciding on the arrangement and the feel for the song took about six months of playing it different ways. Finally, this arrangement came to us during the last week of recording and we couldn't be happier.
Trouble, oh trouble,
Ain’t got time for you this morn.
Trouble, oh trouble,
Ain’t got time for you this morn.
You better move on down the line.
To the twenty inch coal I’m sworn.

Trouble, oh trouble,
Ain’t got time for you today.
Trouble, oh trouble,
Ain’t got time for you today.
You better move on down the line.
Gotta work to make my pay.

Trouble, oh trouble,
Ain’t got time for you tonight.
Trouble, oh trouble,
Ain’t got time for you tonight.
You better move on down the line.
Gotta squeeze my honey tight.

Trouble, oh trouble,
Ain’t got time for you no more.
Trouble, oh trouble,
Ain’t got time for you no more.
If you don’t move on down the line,
Gonna throw you out my door.
If you don’t move on down the line,
Gonna throw you out my door.