ride the blue wind high and free
she'll lead you down to misery
leave you low come time to go
alone and low as low can be
if I had a nickle I'd find a game
if I won a dollar I'd make it rain
if it rained an ocean I'd drink it dry
and lay me down dissatisfied
tell my sister I said so long
tell my mother I did no wrong
tell my brother to watch his own
tell my friends to mourn me none
eyes to laugh and lips to cry
legs to walk and thoughts to fly
a restless tongue to classify
all born to grow and grown to die
chained across the face of time
feeling full of foolish rhyme
there aint no dark 'til something shines
I'm bound to leave this dark behind
ride the blue wind high and free
she'll lead you down to misery
leave you low come time to go
alone and low as low can be
Rex's Blues is written by Townes Van Zandt. It is first released in 1998 as part of James Mcmurtry's album "Walk Between the Raindrops" which includes 10 tracks in total. This song is the 9th track on this album. Rex's Blues falls under the genre Rock.