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title: Everybody’s Had the Blues
description: "Song of the Month:  “Everybody’s Had the Blues”, by Merle Haggard"
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# [Everybody’s Had the Blues](https://blog.thebusinessofgood.org/everybodys-had-the-blues)

 Written by [Tim McCarthy](https://blog.thebusinessofgood.org/author/tim-mccarthy) | Jul 31, 2021 2:20:36 PM

Editor’s note:  *I ran into this obscure cover of an old Haggard song performed on 1993 Blues Summit CD by BB King and Joe Louis Walker and I could only smile.  Two blues hall of famers having fun with an old country song.  It will do your heart good to listen while tapping your feet.  *

 

Favorite lyric: 

A lonely, song someone is gone, a story old as time  
Love, hate, or want and wait till misery fills your mind  
But everybody knows the way I'm feelin'  
'Cause everybody's had the blues

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