《Why I Sing The Blues》歌词

[00:00:00] Why I Sing The Blues - B.B. King (雷利·金)

[00:00:26] Everybody wants to know

[00:00:29] Why I sing the blues

[00:00:33] Yes, I say everybody wanna know

[00:00:38] Why I sing the blues

[00:00:42] Well, I've been around a long time

[00:00:45] I really have paid my dues

[00:00:50] When I first got the blues

[00:00:53] They brought me over on a ship

[00:00:55] Men were standing over me

[00:00:57] And a lot more with a whip

[00:00:59] And everybody wanna know

[00:01:02] Why I sing the blues

[00:01:07] Well, I've been around a long time

[00:01:10] Mm, I've really paid my dues

[00:01:15] I've laid in a ghetto flat

[00:01:18] Cold and numb

[00:01:20] I heard the rats tell the bedbugs

[00:01:22] To give the roaches some

[00:01:24] Everybody wanna know

[00:01:27] Why I'm singing the blues

[00:01:31] Yes, I've been around a long time

[00:01:35] People, I've paid my dues

[00:01:40] I stood in line

[00:01:43] Down at the County Hall

[00:01:44] I heard a man say, "We're gonna build

[00:01:47] Some new apartments for y'all"

[00:01:48] And everybody wanna know

[00:01:51] Yes, they wanna know

[00:01:52] Why I'm singing the blues

[00:01:56] Yes, I've been around a long, long time

[00:01:59] Yes, I've really, really paid my dues

[00:02:02] Now I'm gonna play Lucille.

[00:02:29] My kid's gonna grow up

[00:02:31] Gonna grow up to be a fool

[00:02:33] 'Cause they ain't got no more room

[00:02:35] No more room for him in school

[00:02:37] And everybody wanna know

[00:02:40] Everybody wanna know

[00:02:41] Why I'm singing the blues

[00:02:45] I say I've been around a long time

[00:02:48] Yes, I've really paid some dues

[00:02:52] Yeah, you know the company told me

[00:02:56] Guess you're born to lose

[00:02:58] Everybody around me, people

[00:03:00] It seems like everybody got the blues

[00:03:02] But I had 'em a long time

[00:03:05] I've really, really paid my dues

[00:03:09] You know I ain't ashamed of it, people

[00:03:12] I just love to sing my blues

[00:03:42] I walk through the cities, people

[00:03:44] On my bare feet

[00:03:46] I had a fill of catfish and chitterlings

[00:03:48] Up and down Beal Street

[00:03:50] You know I'm singing the blues

[00:03:53] Yes, I really

[00:03:54] I just have to sing my blues

[00:03:58] I've been around a long time

[00:04:01] People, I've really, really paid my dues

[00:04:05] Now Father Time is catching up with me

[00:04:08] Gone is my youth

[00:04:10] I look in the mirror everyday

[00:04:12] And let it tell me the truth

[00:04:15] I'm singing the blues

[00:04:18] Mm, I just have to sing the blues

[00:04:22] I've been around a long time

[00:04:25] Yes, yes, I've really paid some dues

[00:04:54] Yeah, they told me everything

[00:04:56] Would be better out in the country

[00:04:58] Everything was fine

[00:05:00] I caught me a bus uptown, baby

[00:05:03] And every people, all the people

[00:05:05] Got the same trouble as mine

[00:05:07] I got the blues, huh huh

[00:05:10] I say I've been around a long time

[00:05:15] I've really paid some dues

[00:05:16] One more time, fellows!

[00:05:19] Blind man on the corner

[00:05:21] Begging for a dime

[00:05:23] The rollers come and caught him

[00:05:25] And throw him in the jail for a crime

[00:05:28] I got the blues

[00:05:31] Mm, I'm singing my blues

[00:05:35] I've been around a long time

[00:05:37] Mm, I've really paid some dues

[00:05:40] Can we do just one more?

[00:05:43] Oh I thought I'd go down to the welfare

[00:05:45] To get myself some grits and stuff

[00:05:47] But a lady stand up and she said

[00:05:49] "You haven't been around long enough"

[00:05:51] That's why I got the blues

[00:05:55] Mm, the blues

[00:05:59] I say, I've been around a long time

[00:06:02] I've really, really paid my dues

[00:06:05] Fellows, tell them one more time.