作词 : Clark, King

Why I Sing The Blues -B.B.King

Everybody wants to know

Why I sing the blues

Yes,I say everybody wanna know

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