Makes A Long Time Man Feel Bad – Roger McGuinn's Folk Den

When I worked for Bobby Darin in 1962, he and I used to do this song. I would play my 12-string guitar doing this rather fast lick and Bobby always wanted it a little faster. Twin spotlights lit the center of the stage. Bobby was on the mic to my left. We performed this as a folk duo with me singing the high harmony.

Lyrics:

Dm C Dm

Makes a long time man feel bad

Dm C Dm

Makes a long time man feel bad

Dm C G F

Can’t get no letters, can’t even roam

Dm C Dm

Makes a long time man feel bad

Alberta let your hair grow long

Let it grow on down till it reaches the ground

Alberta let your hair grow long

I’d walk five hundred miles

I’d walk five hundred miles good Lord

If they’d let me go on home

Well sure my mama must be gone

Well sure my mama must be gone good Lord

Makes a long time man feel bad

Makes a long time man feel bad good Lord

Makes a long time man feel bad