Five Long Years

Five Long Years -Memphis Slim

Composed by：Eddie Boyd

If you ever been mistreated

You know what I'm talking about

Have you ever been mistreated

You know what I'm talking about

I worked five long years for one woman

Then she had the nerve to put me out

I got a job in a steel mill

Shucking steel like a slave

Five long years baby

And I all my pay

Have you ever been mistreated

You know what I'm talking about

Yeah yeah

I worked five long years for one woman

She had the nerve to put me out

She put me out yeah

I finally learned my lesson

With me come ago

But the next woman that I marry

Now she gonna work and bring me the dough

Have you ever been mistreated people

You know what I'm talking about

Hey hey

Hey I worked five long years for one woman

Then she got me nerve to put me out

Yeah yeah play now play now

Love is a true now

Yeah yeah

Yeah

I finally learned my lesson

Yeah

Ever thing I now

The next woman that I marry

She gonna work and bring me the dough

Yeah

Have you ever been mistreated

You know what I'm talking about

How ever been do

I worked five long years for one woman

Then she had the nerve to put me out

Yeah yeah yeah all right

I here you man I here

Where the blues

Hey hey

Have you ever been mistreated people

Then you know what I'm talking about

Hey hey ohohoh

Have you ever been mistreated

Then you know what I'm talking about

Well I worked five long years for one woman

Then she had the nerve to put me out

Hey hey

She had the nerve