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C7Everybody wants to know
Why I sing the blues
Yes, F7I say everybody wanna know
Why I C7sing the blues
Well, I've been G7around a long time
F7I really have paid my C7dues
When C7I first got the blues
They brought me over on a ship
Men were standing over me
And a lot more with a whip
F7And everybody wanna know
Why I sing the C7blues
Well, I've been G7around a long time
F7Mm, I've really paid my C7dues
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C7I've laid in a ghetto flat
Cold and numb
I heard the rats tell the bedbugs
To give the roaches some
F7Everybody wanna know
Why I'm C7singing the blues
Yes, I've been G7around a long time
F7People, I've paid my C7dues
I C7stood in line
Down at the County Hall
I heard a man say, "We're gonna build
Some new apartments for y'all"
F7And everybody wanna know
Yes, they wanna know
Why I'm C7singing the blues
Yes, I've been G7around a long, long time
F7Yes, I've really, really paid my C7dues
(Now I'm gonna play Lucille)
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My C7kid'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
F7And everybody wanna know
Everybody wanna know
Why I'm C7singing the blues
I say I've been G7around a long time
F7Yes, I've really paid some C7dues
Yeah, you know C7the company told me
Guess you're born to lose
Everybody around me, people
It seems like everybody got the F7blues
But I had 'em a long time
I've C7really, really paid my dues
You know I G7ain't ashamed of it, people
F7I just love to sing my C7blues
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I C7walk through the cities, people
On my bare feet
I had a fill of catfish and chitterlings
Up in Downbill Street
F7You know I'm singing the blues
Yes, I C7really
I just have to sing my blues
G7I've been around a long time
F7People, I've really, C7really paid my dues
Now C7Father Time is catching up with me
Gone is my youth
I look in the mirror everyday
And let it tell me the truth
F7I'm singing the blues
Mm, C7I just have to sing the blues
G7I've been around a long time
F7Yes, yes, I've really C7paid some dues
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Yeah, C7they told me everything
Would be better out in the country
Everything was fine
I caught me a bus uptown, baby
F7And every people, all the people
Got the same trouble as mine
C7I got the blues, huh huh
I say I've been G7around a long time
F7I've really paid C7some dues
One more time, fellows!
C7Blind man on the corner
Begging for a dime
The rollers come and caught him
And throw him in the jail for a crime F7
I got the blues
Mm, I'm C7singing my blues
I've been G7around a long time
F7Mm, I've really paid some C7dues
Can we do just one more?
C7Oh I thought I'd go down to the welfare
To get myself some grits and stuff
But a lady stand up and she said
"You haven't been around long enough" F7
That's why I got the blues
Mm, C7the blues
I G7say, I've been around a long time
F7I've really, really paid C7my dues
Fellows, tell them one more time
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