Letras
Everybody wants to know why I sing the blues
Yes, everybody wants to know why I sing the blues
Well, I've been around a long, long time
I really paid my dues
When I first got the blues, they brought me over on a ship
Men standing around me, lots more with a whip
Everybody wants to know why I sing the blues
Well, I've been around a long, long time
People, I paid my dues
When I laid in the ghetto flat, cold and numb
I heard the rat tell the bedbug to give the roach some
Everybody wants to know why I sing the blues
Well, I've been around a long time
I really paid my dues
I stood in line, y'all, down at the county hall
I heard some men say, "We gonna build some new apartments for y'all"
And everybody wants to know why I sing the blues
Well, I've been around a long, long time
Yes, I really, really paid my dues
My kid's gonna grow up, y'all, to be a fool
They ain't got no more room for him in school
Everybody wants to know why I sing the blues
Well, I've been around a long, long time
I really paid my dues
Yes, the doctor told me, "Yes, you were born to lose"
Seem like everybody around me, people
Seem like everybody got the blues
But I had 'em a long time, I really paid my dues
Well, you know I'm not ashamed of it
People, I just love to sing my blues
Well, I walked in the city on my bare feet
I had a field of catfish chilling down on Beale Street
Everybody wants to know why I sing the blues
Well, I've been around a long time, y'all
I really paid my dues
Now, father time is catching up with me, gone is my youth
I look in the mirror and say, "Tell me the truth"
I'm singing the blues, y'all, mhm, I just love to sing the blues
See, I've been around a long time, y'all
I really, really paid my dues
I thought in the land and country, everything would be fine
But they in the country had trouble just like mine