Why I Sing the Blues

Everybody wants to know, they've ask me why I sing the blues

Everybody wants to know now, why I keep crying the blues

Well, I've been around a little while and I've paid some dues, yes, I have

People laying in ghetto flats, cold and numb

Looking at roaches, telling bedbugs to move over and give 'em some

Oh, it's tight in here, that's one reason I'm singing the blues, yeah

Been around a long time, God knows I've paid a few dues, yes, I have

Stood in line at the County Hall

Heard a man saying "we're gonna build some higher rents for y'all

Up in renewal, work on a removal, talk to me, yeah"

Don't feel bad about it, just trying to be free

Ooh-ooh, I don't want my kids growing up to be no fools

You keep rapping to me y'all ain't got no room in school, yeah

And you want to know why I'm singing the blues, yeah

Been around a little while and I've seen some people paying dues, yes, I have

Some of my friends told me I was born to loose

But when I looked around they were singing the same old kind of blues, now

And you want to know why I'm singing 'em this evening, yeah?

Don't be saying those, everybody pays some dues sometimes

Yeah, sing the blues nowWell I say hey, hey, well I say hey, hey

Well I say hey, might be mad as a child today

Hey, Lucille, Lucille, whoa-whoa

Hey, Lucille, Lucille, whoa-whoa

Hey, Lucille, Lucille, whoa-whoa

Hey, Lucille, Lucille

Might be mad as a child today

Whoa-whoa, hey, Lucille, Lucille, whoa-whoa

Hey, Lucille, Lucille, whoa-whoa