[ti:Sportin' Life] [ar:Various Artists] [al:Rural Blues: The Essential Collection (Digitally Remastered)] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Sportin' Life (Album Version) - Sonny Terry/Brownie McGhee [00:11.57]I'm tired of runnin' around think I will marry and settle down [00:23.23]This ole sportin' life it is a mean life and it's killin' me [00:34.90]I got a letter from my home all of my schoolmates they are dead an' gone [00:45.76]It'll make you worry it'll make you wonder 'bout days to come [00:57.32]My mother used to talk to me I was young and foolish Brownie could not see [01:09.12]I have no mother my sisters and my brothers they don't care for me [01:21.03]She used to fall on her knees an' pray these are the words mother she used to say [01:32.58]She would say:"Brownie wha-oh Broeine please change your way" [01:44.69]I'm goin' to change my way I'm growin' older each and every day [01:56.04]When I was young and foolish I was so easy easy to let [02:30.87]I'm goin' to change my way I'm growin' older each and every day [02:42.00]When I was young and foolish I was so easy easy to let [02:53.60]There ain't but one thing Brownie done wrong I liv'd that ole sportin' life too long [03:05.39]Friends it's no good please believe me please leave it alone