Lyrics Lightnin' Hopkins

Lightnin' Hopkins

Happy Blues For John Glenn

People, I was sittin' this mornin' with this on my mind

Said there ain't no livin' man who gone around the world three times

John Glenn done it, yes he did

He did it, I'm talkin' about him only did it for fun

Half a million dollars made him feel so well

He got to eatin' his lunch and couldn't hardly tell

He said, "I feel all right", John Glenn said it

Everybody was laughin' and dipped in the gritty

It was a million prayer went up, prayin' that he would land

I looked at a school house full of men and they didn't know what to say

But they said, "Let him come back, God, please let him land

You know that's the onliest man ever did it and You're the helpin' hand"

I'm gonna turn out to be one [Incomprehensible]

I see him when he left but I didn't see him when he land

But I know he was doin' all right when they said, "It is okay

To give him a great big hand, he'll be in on the ship, they say he's on deck”

His mother say, “I know my son gonna make it

It ain't never been no mistake”

You know I gonna tell you somethin', this ain't lyin'

You know that man must had on his mind flyin'

It ain't nobody will take that for his tryin' unless they gonna build him

His own self airplane and they gonna go flyin'

They told him, "Don't worry, this is true", you may miss me

For a few minutes but I'll be back to see about you, he did

Yes he did, yes, when he done it

Didn't know [Incomprehensible] helicopter

You know they tested that boy's body, they even test his heart

They know he was all right when he was gettin' to start

I mean he's made it, he went around the world three times

You know he went and got him an airplane

And he made up and had it on his mind

That's what he had on his mind

He didn't have no kid and he didn't have no digs

He just had it on his mind flyin'