Why I Sing The Blues-B.B. King

[ti:Why I Sing The Blues] [ar:B.B.King] [al:Greatest Hits] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Why I Sing The Blues - B.B. King [00:26.84]Everybody wants to know [00:28.72] [00:30.34]Why I sing the blues [00:31.90] [00:34.22]Yes, I say everybody wanna know [00:36.72] [00:38.41]Why I sing the blues [00:40.41] [00:42.47]Well, I've been around a long time [00:44.90] [00:46.15]I really have paid my dues [00:48.34] [00:50.78]When I first got the blues [00:52.98] [00:53.66]They brought me over on a ship [00:55.41] [00:55.97]Men were standing over me [00:56.81] [00:57.44]And a lot more with a whip [00:59.45]And everybody wanna know [01:00.58] [01:02.14]Why I sing the blues [01:04.35] [01:07.29]Well, I've been around a long time [01:09.61] [01:10.74]Mm, I've really paid my dues [01:13.19] [01:16.06]I've laid in a ghetto flat [01:17.88] [01:18.38]Cold and numb [01:19.56] [01:20.19]I heard the rats tell the bedbugs [01:22.69]To give the roaches some [01:24.61]Everybody wanna know [01:25.87] [01:27.94]Why I'm singing the blues [01:29.75] [01:32.13]Yes, I've been around a long time [01:34.69] [01:35.32]People, I've paid my dues [01:37.00] [01:40.57]I stood in line [01:43.20]Down at the County Hall [01:44.30] [01:44.88]I heard a man say, "We're gonna build [01:48.24]Some new apartments for y'all" [01:49.68]And everybody wanna know [01:50.68] [01:51.80]Yes, they wanna know [01:53.21]Why I'm singing the blues [01:54.40] [01:56.58]Yes, I've been around a long, long time [01:59.76]Yes, I've really, really paid my dues [02:02.27]Now I'm gonna play Lucille. [02:03.52] [02:29.95]My kid's gonna grow up [02:31.71]Gonna grow up to be a fool [02:33.77]'Cause they ain't got no more room [02:35.70]No more room for him in school [02:38.08]And everybody wanna know [02:39.27] [02:40.27]Everybody wanna know [02:41.39] [02:41.96]Why I'm singing the blues [02:43.21] [02:45.33]I say I've been around a long time [02:47.45] [02:48.33]Yes, I've really paid some dues [02:50.94] [02:52.38]Yeah, you know the company told me [02:55.52] [02:56.33]Guess you're born to lose [02:58.39]Everybody around me, people [03:00.33]It seems like everybody got the blues [03:02.58]But I had 'em a long time [03:04.27] [03:05.26]I've really, really paid my dues [03:07.27] [03:09.33]You know I ain't ashamed of it, people [03:11.46] [03:12.33]I just love to sing my blues [03:15.14] [03:42.33]I walk through the cities, people [03:44.58]On my bare feet [03:45.70] [03:46.39]I had a fill of catfish and chitterlings [03:48.38] [03:48.89]Up in Downbill Street [03:50.88]You know I'm singing the blues [03:52.45] [03:53.94]Yes, I really [03:55.26]I just have to sing my blues [03:57.00] [03:58.88]I've been around a long time [04:00.53] [04:01.46]People, I've really, really paid my dues [04:04.96] [04:06.02]Now Father Time is catching up with me [04:08.70] [04:09.52]Gone is my youth [04:10.83]I look in the mirror everyday [04:12.40] [04:13.02]And let it tell me the truth [04:15.13]I'm singing the blues [04:16.01] [04:18.13]Mm, I just have to sing the blues [04:21.00] [04:22.62]I've been around a long time [04:24.50] [04:25.13]Yes, yes, I've really paid some dues [04:28.36] [04:54.86]Yeah, they told me everything [04:56.50]Would be better out in the country [04:57.94] [04:58.93]Everything was fine [05:00.00] [05:00.75]I caught me a bus uptown, baby [05:03.52]And every people, all the people [05:05.77]Got the same trouble as mine [05:07.48]I got the blues, huh huh [05:09.46] [05:10.96]I say I've been around a long time [05:13.88] [05:15.38]I've really paid some dues [05:16.63] [05:17.13]One more time, fellows! [05:18.32] [05:19.82]Blind man on the corner [05:21.20] [05:22.08]Begging for a dime [05:23.22] [05:23.83]The rollers come and caught him [05:25.72]And throw him in the jail for a crime [05:28.03] [05:29.15]I got the blues [05:30.15] [05:31.22]Mm, I'm singing my blues [05:33.46] [05:35.20]I've been around a long time [05:36.90] [05:38.15]Mm, I've really paid some dues [05:40.53]Can we do just one more? [05:41.97] [05:43.21]Oh I thought I'd go down to the welfare [05:46.09]To get myself some grits and stuff [05:48.09]But a lady stand up and she said [05:50.33]"You haven't been around long enough" [05:52.30] [05:52.86]That's why I got the blues [05:54.16] [05:55.35]Mm, the blues [05:57.45] [05:59.57]I say, I've been around a long time [06:01.82] [06:02.57]I've really, really paid my dues [06:05.28] [06:06.10]Fellows, tell them one more time. [06:07.72] [08:11.11]Ha, ha, ha. That's all right, fellows. [08:12.79] [08:15.54]Yeah!