Why I Sing The Blues chords by
B.b. King

1969Blues336 views

Key: C major•

Intro 1

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Verse 1

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Everybody wants to know

Why I sing the blues

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Yes, I say everybody wanna know

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Why I sing the blues

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Well, I've been around a long time

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I really have paid my dues

Verse 2

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When I first got the blues

They brought me over on a ship

Men were standing over me

And a lot more with the whip

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And everybody wanna know

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Why I sing the blues

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Well, I've been around a long time

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I really have paid my dues

Verse 3

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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

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Everybody wanna know

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Why I'm singing the blues

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Yes, I've been around a long time

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People, I've paid my dues

Verse 4

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I stood in line

Down at the County Hall

I heard a man say, "We're gonna build

Some new apartments for y'all"

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And everybody wanna know

Yes, they wanna know

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Why I'm singing the blues

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Yes, I've been around a long, long time

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Yes, I've really, really paid my dues

Solo 1

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Verse 5

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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

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And everybody wanna know

Everybody wanna know

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Why I'm singing the blues

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I say I've been around a long time

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Yes, I've really paid some dues

Verse 6

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Yeah, you know the company told me

Guess you're born to lose

Everybody around me, people

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It seems like everybody got the blues

But I had 'em a long time

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I've really, really paid my dues

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You know I ain't ashamed of it, people

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I just love to sing my blues

Solo 2

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Verse 7

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I walk through the cities, people

On my bare feet

I had a fill of catfish and chitterlings

Up and down Beal Street

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You know I'm singing the blues

Yes, I really

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I just have to sing my blues

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I've been around a long time

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People, I've really, really paid my dues

Verse 8

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Now Father time is catching up with me

Gone is my youth

I look in the mirror everyday

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And let it tell me the truth

I'm singing the blues

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Mm, I just have to sing the blues

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I've been around a long time

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Yes, yes, I've really paid some dues

Solo 3

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Verse 9

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Yeah, they told me everything

Would be better out in the country

Everything was fine

I caught me a bus uptown, baby

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And every people, all the people

Got the same trouble as mine

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I got the blues, huh huh

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I say I've been around a long time

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I've really paid some dues

Verse 10

One more time, fellows!

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Blind man on the corner

Begging for a dime

The rollers come and caught him

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And throw him in the jail for a crime

I got the blues

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Mm, I'm singing my blues

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I've been around a long time

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Mm, I've really paid some dues

Verse 11

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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

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"You haven't been around long enough"

That's why I got the blues

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Mm, the blues

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I say, I've been around a long time

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Solo 4

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