[00:00.00]时代音乐网 www.78497.com  [00:26.20]Everybody wants to know [00:29.63]Why I sing the blues [00:33.75]Yes, I say everybody wanna know [00:38.28]Why I sing the blues [00:42.08]Well, I've been around a long time [00:45.76]I really have paid my dues [00:50.44]When I first got the blues [00:53.06]They brought me over on a ship [00:55.69]Men were standing over me [00:57.43]And a lot more with a whip [00:59.43]And everybody wanna know [01:01.86]Why I sing the blues [01:06.94]Well, I've been around a long time [01:10.19]Mm, I've really paid my dues [01:15.55]I've laid in a ghetto flat [01:18.05]Cold and numb [01:19.80]I heard the rats tell the bedbugs [01:22.73]To give the roaches some [01:24.72]Everybody wanna know [01:27.47]Why I'm singing the blues [01:31.59]Yes, I've been around a long time [01:34.78]People, I've paid my dues [01:39.90]I stood in line [01:42.52]Down at the County Hall [01:44.45]I heard a man say [01:46.39]We're gonna build [01:47.38]Some new apartments for y'all [01:49.07]And everybody wanna know [01:51.07]Yes, they wanna know [01:52.63]Why I'm singing the blues [01:56.19]Yes, I've been around a long, long time [01:59.24]Yes, I've really, really paid my dues [02:01.61]Now I'm gonna play Lucille [02:29.27]My kid's gonna grow up [02:31.02]Gonna grow up to be a fool [02:33.13]'Cause they ain't got no more room [02:35.13]No more room for him in school [02:37.50]And everybody wanna know [02:39.62]Everybody wanna know [02:41.12]Why I'm singing the blues [02:44.74]I say I've been around a long time [02:47.99]Yes, I've really paid some dues [02:51.75]Yeah, you know the company told me [02:55.69]Guess you're born to lose [02:57.69]Everybody around me, people [02:59.62]It seems like everybody got the blues [03:01.87]But I had em a long time [03:04.68]I've really, really paid my dues [03:08.73]You know I ain't ashamed of it, people [03:11.79]I just love to sing my blues [03:41.50]I walk through the cities, people [03:43.80]On my bare feet [03:45.61]I had a fill of catfish and chitterlings [03:48.42]Up in Downbill Street [03:50.17]You know I'm singing the blues [03:53.04]Yes, I really [03:54.41]I just have to sing my blues [03:58.15]I've been around a long time [04:01.03]People, I've really [04:02.02]Really paid my dues [04:05.27]Now Father Time is catching up with me [04:08.77]Gone is my youth [04:10.08]I look in the mirror everyday [04:12.13]And let it tell me the truth [04:14.57]I'm singing the blues [04:17.32]Mm, I just have to sing the blues [04:21.87]I've been around a long time [04:24.49]Yes, yes, I've really paid some dues [04:54.00]Yeah, they told me everything [04:55.82]Would be better out in the country [04:58.18]Everything was fine [04:59.93]I caught me a bus uptown, baby [05:02.24]And every people [05:03.86]All the people [05:04.80]Got the same trouble as mine [05:06.42]I got the blues, huh huh [05:10.10]I say I've been around a long time [05:14.46]I've really paid some dues [05:16.15]One more time, fellows [05:18.90]Blind man on the corner [05:21.39]Begging for a dime [05:22.83]The rollers come and caught him [05:24.70]And throw him in the jail for a crime [05:28.00]I got the blues [05:30.38]Mm, I'm singing my blues [05:34.31]I've been around a long time [05:37.43]Mm, I've really paid some dues [05:39.61]Can we do just one more [05:42.54]Oh I thought I'd go down to the welfare [05:45.10]To get myself some grits and stuff [05:46.85]But a lady stand up and she said [05:49.22]You haven't been around long enough [05:51.09]That's why I got the blues [05:54.65]Mm, the blues [05:58.52]I say, I've been around a long time [06:01.57]I've really, really paid my dues [06:05.13]Fellows, tell them one more time [08:09.85]Ha, ha, ha [08:10.98]That's all right, fellows [08:14.22]Yeah