Why I Sing The Lyrics

song lyrics Why I Sing The Blues lyrics 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 and down Beal 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! song lyrics