Karaoké Why I Sing the Blues (live) 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 standin' 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

Mmh mmh 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 singin' 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 singin' 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

Alright

Alright

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My kid's gonna grow up

Gonna grow up to be a fool

'Cos they ain't got no more room

No more room for him in school

And everybody wanna know

Everybody wanna know why I'm singin' 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 and down Beale Street

You know I'm singin' 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 catchin' up with me

Gone is my youth

I look in the mirror everyday and let it tell me the truth

I'm singin' the blues

Mmh mmh mmh

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

Mmh 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

Uh huh

I say I've been around a long time

Mmh mmh mmh

I've really paid some dues

One more time fellas

Blind man on the corner

Beggin' for a dime

The rollers come and caught him and throw him in the jail for a crime

I got the blues

Mmh mmh mmh mmh

I'm singin' my blues

I've been around a long time

Mmh I've really paid some dues

Can we do just one more

Woah 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

Mmh mmh the blues

I say I've been around a long time

I've really

Really paid my dues

Fellas tell them one more time

Ha ha ha

That's alright fellas ha ha ha ha

Yeah

Ha ha ha ha

Ha ha ha ha ha ha

Eh ah

Yeah

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