I got a mandolin and I got the blues
I got the mandolin and I got bad news
I'm gonna play my mandolin until my brain unscrews
I love a woman so bad, it hurts me when I talk
I love a woman so bad, I hate to see her walk
I'm gonna play my mandolin all around the clock
my mandolin got 8 strings that tighten in my heart
8 strings to make it sing to tear my soul apart
my mandolin is a machine I don't need to kick start
if you got a mandolin, you're on the top of the world
a pretty fat mandolin, you make the notes unfurl
but even the best mandolin, can't substitute a girl
I got the mandolin blues, I'm playing all night long
the major mandolin blues, cause everything gone wrong
call it the mandolin blues, that's the name of this song