Why I Sing The Blues (Album Version)-B.B. King

[ti:Why I Sing The Blues] [ar:B.B.King] [al:Live And Well] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Why I Sing The Blues (Album Version) - B.B. King [00:26.15]Everybody wants to know [00:29.58]Why I sing the blues [00:33.70]Yes, I say everybody wanna know [00:38.23]Why I sing the blues [00:40.47] [00:42.03]Well, I've been around a long time [00:45.71]I really have paid my dues [00:50.39]When I first got the blues [00:53.01]They brought me over on a ship [00:55.64]Men were standing over me [00:57.38]And a lot more with a whip [00:59.38]And everybody wanna know [01:01.81]Why I sing the blues [01:04.52] [01:06.89]Well, I've been around a long time [01:10.14]Mm, I've really paid my dues [01:13.57] [01:15.50]I've laid in a ghetto flat [01:18.00]Cold and numb [01:19.75]I heard the rats tell the bedbugs [01:22.68]To give the roaches some [01:24.67]Everybody wanna know [01:25.43] [01:27.42]Why I'm singing the blues [01:30.17] [01:31.54]Yes, I've been around a long time [01:34.73]People, I've paid my dues [01:37.66] [01:39.85]I stood in line [01:42.47]Down at the County Hall [01:44.40]I heard a man say [01:46.34]We're gonna build [01:47.33]Some new apartments for y'all [01:49.02]And everybody wanna know [01:51.02]Yes, they wanna know [01:52.58]Why I'm singing the blues [01:55.13] [01:56.14]Yes, I've been around a long, long time [01:59.19]Yes, I've really, really paid my dues [02:01.56]Now I'm gonna play Lucille [02:02.74] [02:29.22]My kid's gonna grow up [02:30.97]Gonna grow up to be a fool [02:33.08]'Cause they ain't got no more room [02:35.08]No more room for him in school [02:37.45]And everybody wanna know [02:39.57]Everybody wanna know [02:41.07]Why I'm singing the blues [02:43.32] [02:44.69]I say I've been around a long time [02:47.94]Yes, I've really paid some dues [02:50.63] [02:51.70]Yeah, you know the company told me [02:55.64]Guess you're born to lose [02:57.64]Everybody around me, people [02:59.57]It seems like everybody got the blues [03:01.82]But I had em a long time [03:04.63]I've really, really paid my dues [03:07.37] [03:08.68]You know I ain't ashamed of it, people [03:11.74]I just love to sing my blues [03:14.61] [03:41.45]I walk through the cities, people [03:43.75]On my bare feet [03:45.56]I had a fill of catfish and chitterlings [03:48.37]Up in Downbill Street [03:50.12]You know I'm singing the blues [03:52.99]Yes, I really [03:54.36]I just have to sing my blues [03:57.23] [03:58.10]I've been around a long time [04:00.98]People, I've really [04:01.97]Really paid my dues [04:04.60] [04:05.22]Now Father Time is catching up with me [04:08.72]Gone is my youth [04:10.03]I look in the mirror everyday [04:12.08]And let it tell me the truth [04:14.52]I'm singing the blues [04:16.39] [04:17.27]Mm, I just have to sing the blues [04:20.63] [04:21.82]I've been around a long time [04:23.87] [04:24.44]Yes, yes, I've really paid some dues [04:27.31] [04:53.95]Yeah, they told me everything [04:55.77]Would be better out in the country [04:58.13]Everything was fine [04:59.88]I caught me a bus uptown, baby [05:02.19]And every people [05:03.81]All the people [05:04.75]Got the same trouble as mine [05:06.37]I got the blues, huh huh [05:09.24] [05:10.05]I say I've been around a long time [05:11.98] [05:14.41]I've really paid some dues [05:16.10]One more time, fellows [05:18.34] [05:18.85]Blind man on the corner [05:21.34]Begging for a dime [05:22.78]The rollers come and caught him [05:24.65]And throw him in the jail for a crime [05:27.95]I got the blues [05:30.33]Mm, I'm singing my blues [05:33.51] [05:34.26]I've been around a long time [05:37.38]Mm, I've really paid some dues [05:39.56]Can we do just one more [05:42.49]Oh I thought I'd go down to the welfare [05:45.05]To get myself some grits and stuff [05:46.80]But a lady stand up and she said [05:49.17]You haven't been around long enough [05:51.04]That's why I got the blues [05:54.60]Mm, the blues [05:56.85] [05:58.47]I say, I've been around a long time [06:01.52]I've really, really paid my dues [06:05.08]Fellows, tell them one more time [06:07.59] [08:09.79]Ha, ha, ha [08:10.92]That's all right, fellows [08:12.93] [08:14.17]Yeah