00:25I said everybody wanna know
00:30Why I seen the blues
00:35I said everybody wanna know
00:38Why I seen the blues
00:43I've been around a long time
00:46People I paid my dues
00:51When I first got the blues
00:53They brought me over on the ship
00:55Many of me was standing around me
00:57And a whole lot more with the whip
00:59Everybody wanna know
01:01Why I seen the blues
01:06I've been around a long time
01:09People I paid my dues
01:14When I lived in the ghetto flats
01:17Cold and numb
01:19I heard the rats tear the bed bugs
01:21To get the roaches some
01:22Everybody wanna know
01:25Why I seen the blues
01:30I've been around a long time
01:33People I paid my dues
01:37Well I stood in line
01:40Down at the county hall
01:42I heard a man say
01:43I said we're gonna feel some
01:44New apartment for y'all
01:46Everybody wanna know
01:48Why I seen the blues
01:53I've been around a long time
01:56People I paid my dues
01:58My daughter's a boy
02:01I heard a man say
02:01They're all gonna need
02:12People I paid my dues
02:18By the time
02:22I said I'd love you
02:25I heard my dues
02:28And I've been around a long time
02:28When I lived in the day
02:48But my kids are gonna grow up, grow up to be a fool
02:52Cause they ain't got no more room down at the school
02:56Everybody wanna know
02:58Why I seen the blues
03:03I've been around a long time
03:06People have paid my dues
03:11Well, you know, the company told me, son
03:14Son, you're born to lose
03:16Every around me, people, everybody got the blues
03:19Yeah, I just love to sing my blues
03:27I've been around for a long time
03:30People have paid my dues
03:34Well, I walked through the cities, people on my bare feet
03:39Had a fifth of cashes and chitlins on downhill street
03:43Everybody wanna know
03:45Why I seen the blues
03:50I've been around a long time
03:53People have paid my dues
03:58Now, for the time is catching up with me
04:01Gone is mine you
04:02I look in the mirror every day
04:04And let it tell me the truth
04:06Everybody wanna know
04:08Everybody wanna know
04:31Why I seen the blues
05:00I've been around for a long time
05:03People have paid my dues
05:07People have paid my dues
05:08Well, I thought I'd get into the welfare
05:10Get some prison stuff
05:12But a lady stand up and said
05:14You ain't been around here long enough
05:16Everybody wanna know
05:17Why I seen the blues
05:20Why I seen the blues
05:23I've been around for a long time
05:25People have paid my dues
05:42And the blues
05:42I've been around for a long time
05:42Will that be elderly
05:42So, you knew it
05:42About me
05:47I thought I'd be××
05:52I
05:57geil
06:12Take another one, take another one, go!
06:50Kingfish!
06:52Kingfish!
06:52Kingfish!
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