Why I Sing the Blues - B.B. King

[00:00.000] 作词 : Clark, King
[00:00.881]Why I Sing The Blues -B.B.King
[00:26.151]Everybody wants to know
[00:29.581]Why I sing the blues
[00:33.701]Yes,I say everybody wanna know
[00:38.230]Why I sing the blues
[00:42.30]Well,I've been around a long time
[00:45.710]I really have paid my dues
[00:50.390]When I first got the blues
[00:53.10]They brought me over on a ship
[00:55.640]Men were standing over me
[00:57.380]And a lot more with a whip
[00:59.380]And everybody wanna know
[01:01.810]Why I sing the blues
[01:06.890]Well,I've been around a long time
[01:10.140]Mm,I've really paid my dues
[01:15.500]I've laid in a ghetto flat
[01:18.00]Cold and numb
[01:19.750]I heard the rats tell the bedbugs
[01:22.680]To give the roaches some
[01:24.670]Everybody wanna know
[01:27.420]Why I'm singing the blues
[01:31.540]Yes,I've been around a long time
[01:34.730]People,I've paid my dues
[01:39.850]I stood in line
[01:42.470]Down at the County Hall
[01:44.400]I heard a man say
[01:46.340]We're gonna build
[01:47.330]Some new apartments for y'all
[01:49.20]And everybody wanna know
[01:51.20]Yes,they wanna know
[01:52.580]Why I'm singing the blues
[01:56.140]Yes,I've been around a long,long time
[01:59.190]Yes,I've really,really paid my dues
[02:01.560]Now I'm gonna play Lucille
[02:29.220]My kid's gonna grow up
[02:30.970]Gonna grow up to be a fool
[02:33.80]'Cause they ain't got no more room
[02:35.80]No more room for him in school
[02:37.450]And everybody wanna know
[02:39.570]Everybody wanna know
[02:41.70]Why I'm singing the blues
[02:44.690]I say I've been around a long time
[02:47.940]Yes,I've really paid some dues
[02:51.700]Yeah,you know the company told me
[02:55.640]Guess you're born to lose
[02:57.640]Everybody around me,people
[02:59.570]It seems like everybody got the blues
[03:01.820]But I had em a long time
[03:04.630]I've really,really paid my dues
[03:08.680]You know I ain't ashamed of it,people
[03:11.740]I just love to sing my blues
[03:41.450]I walk through the cities,people
[03:43.750]On my bare feet
[03:45.560]I had a fill of catfish and chitterlings
[03:48.370]Up in Downbill Street
[03:50.120]You know I'm singing the blues
[03:52.990]Yes,I really
[03:54.360]I just have to sing my blues
[03:58.100]I've been around a long time
[04:00.980]People,I've really
[04:01.970]Really paid my dues
[04:05.220]Now Father Time is catching up with me
[04:08.720]Gone is my youth
[04:10.30]I look in the mirror everyday
[04:12.80]And let it tell me the truth
[04:14.520]I'm singing the blues
[04:17.270]Mm,I just have to sing the blues
[04:21.820]I've been around a long time
[04:24.440]Yes,yes,I've really paid some dues
[04:53.950]Yeah,they told me everything
[04:55.770]Would be better out in the country
[04:58.130]Everything was fine
[04:59.880]I caught me a bus uptown,baby
[05:02.190]And every people
[05:03.810]All the people
[05:04.750]Got the same trouble as mine
[05:06.370]I got the blues,huh huh
[05:10.50]I say I've been around a long time
[05:14.410]I've really paid some dues
[05:16.100]One more time,fellows
[05:18.850]Blind man on the corner
[05:21.340]Begging for a dime
[05:22.780]The rollers come and caught him
[05:24.650]And throw him in the jail for a crime
[05:27.950]I got the blues
[05:30.330]Mm,I'm singing my blues
[05:34.260]I've been around a long time
[05:37.380]Mm,I've really paid some dues
[05:39.560]Can we do just one more
[05:42.490]Oh I thought I'd go down to the welfare
[05:45.50]To get myself some grits and stuff
[05:46.800]But a lady stand up and she said
[05:49.170]You haven't been around long enough
[05:51.40]That's why I got the blues
[05:54.600]Mm,the blues
[05:58.470]I say,I've been around a long time
[06:01.520]I've really,really paid my dues
[06:05.80]Fellows,tell them one more time
[08:09.798]Ha,ha,ha
[08:10.928]That's all right,fellows
[08:14.170]Yeah