B B King "Why i sing the blues" lyrics

• Why I sing the blues 

  

   

   

• Well, I've been around a long time
• I really have paid my dues
• When I first got the blues
• They brought me over on a ship
• Men were standing over me
• And a lot more with a whip
• And everybody wanna know
• Why I sing the blues
• Well, I've been around a long time
• Mm, I've really paid my dues
• I've laid in a ghetto flat
• Cold and numb
• I heard the rats tell the bedbugs
• To give the roaches some
• Everybody wanna know
• Why I'm singing the blues
• Yes, I've been around a long time
• People, I've paid my dues
• I stood in line
• Down at the County Hall
• I heard a man say, "We're gonna build
• Some new apartments for y'all"
• And everybody wanna know
• Yes, they wanna know
• Why I'm singing the blues
• Yes, I've been around a long, long time
• Yes, I've really, really paid my dues
• Now I'm gonna play Lucille.
• My kid's gonna grow up
• Gonna grow up to be a fool
• 'Cause they ain't got no more room
• No more room for him in school
• And everybody wanna know
• Everybody wanna know
• Why I'm singing the blues
• I say I've been around a long time
• Yes, I've really paid some dues
• Yeah, you know the company told me
• Guess you're born to lose
• Everybody around me, people
• It seems like everybody got the blues
• But I had 'em a long time
• I've really, really paid my dues
• You know I ain't ashamed of it, people
• I just love to sing my blues
• I walk through the cities, people
• On my bare feet
• I had a fill of catfish and chitterlings
• Up in Downbill Street
• You know I'm singing the blues
• Yes, I really
• I just have to sing my blues
• I've been around a long time
• People, I've really, really paid my dues
• Now Father Time is catching up with me
• Gone is my youth
• I look in the mirror everyday
• And let it tell me the truth
• I'm singing the blues
• Mm, I just have to sing the blues
• I've been around a long time
• Yes, yes, I've really paid some dues
• Yeah, they told me everything
• Would be better out in the country
• Everything was fine
• I caught me a bus uptown, baby
• And every people, all the people
• Got the same trouble as mine
• I got the blues, huh huh
• I say I've been around a long time
• I've really paid some dues
• One more time, fellows!
• Blind man on the corner
• Begging for a dime
• The rollers come and caught him
• And throw him in the jail for a crime
• I got the blues
• Mm, I'm singing my blues
• I've been around a long time
• Mm, I've really paid some dues
• Can we do just one more?
• Oh I thought I'd go down to the welfare
• To get myself some grits and stuff
• But a lady stand up and she said
• You haven't been around long enough
• That's why I got the blues
• Mm, the blues
• I say, I've been around a long time
• I've really, really paid my dues
• Fellows, tell them one more time.
• Ha, ha, ha. That's all right, fellows.
• Yeah!