Everybody wants to know

Why I sing the blues

I say everybody wanna know

Why I sing the blues

You know I've been around a long time

People I really have paid my dues

My first got the blues

They brought me over on a ship

Now were then standing over me

And a lot more with a whip

And everybody wanna know

Everybody wanna know

Why I sing the blues

I've been around a long time

People I've really paid my dues

I've laid in a ghetto flat

Cold and numb

I heard the rats tell the bedbugs

To give the roaches some

Everybody wanna know

Everybody wanna know

Why I'm singing the blues

Around a long time

People I've really paid my dues