Why I Sing The Blues Lyrics - 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 

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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!