Rocks In My Bed

by Duke Ellington

From the album: In a Mellotone

Track 15 of 16 on In a Mellotone (1956).

In a Mellotone cover art

Lyrics for Rocks In My Bed

My heart is heavy as lead Because the blues has done spread Rocks in my bed Of all the people I see Why do they pick on poor me And put rocks in my bed All night long I weep So how can I sleep With rocks in my bed There's only two kinds of people I can't understand There's only two kinds of people I can't understand That's a deceitful woman And a hard faced man She took my man away And ain't goin' bring him back She took my man away And ain't goin' bring him back She's lower than a snake down in a wagon track (Bridge) I got rocks in my bed I got rocks in my bed Rocks in my bed I got rocks in my bed Under-loved, over-fed My man's gone, so instead I got rocks in my bed Under-loved, over-fed My man's gone, so instead I got rocks in my bed

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  2. A Portrait Of Bert Williams
  3. Main Stem
  4. Just A-Settin' And A-Rockin'
  5. I Got It Bad (And That Ain't Good)
  6. Perdido
  7. Blue Serge
  8. The Flaming Sword
  9. In A Mellotone
  10. Cotton Tail
  11. I Don't Know What Kind Of Blues I Got
  12. Rumpus In Richmond
  13. All Too Soon
  14. Sepia Panorama
  15. Rocks In My Bed
  16. What Am I Here For?