Why I Sing The Blues Chords by B.B. King

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_ _ [Gm] _ [C] So everybody want to know _ why I sing the blues.
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_ _ [F] Yes, I say everybody want to [Cm] know _ _ [Bb] why [Am] I [Eb] sing the blues.
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_ _ [Gm] Well, I've [G] been around a [Dm] long [F] time.
I [Bb] really have [C] paid my dues.
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_ [Gm] _ [G] When [Cm] I first [C] stopped the [F] blues, [C] they brought me over on a ship.
Men were standing over me and a lot more with the whip.
[F] And everybody want to know _ why I [Dm] sing [C] the blues.
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_ _ _ Well, I've [G] been around a long time.
[F] _ _ I've really [C] paid my dues.
_ _ _ _ [G] [C] I've [Gm] laid in the ghetto flats [C] cold enough.
I've heard the [Ebm] rats tell [C] the bed bugs to give the roaches some.
[F] Everybody want to know _ _ _ [C] why I sing the blues.
_ _ [Cm] _ [G] Yes, I've been around a long [F] time.
People, I've [Cm] paid my [C] dues.
_ _ [G] _ _ [C] I stood in line down at the county hall.
I heard a man say, we're going to build some new apartments [F] for y'all.
And everybody want to know.
_ Yes, they want to [Eb] know why [C] I'm singing the blues.
_ _ _ _ [G] Yes, I've been around a long, long [F] time.
Yes, I've really, really [C] paid my dues.
I'm going to play a little shift.
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_ _ _ [Gm] _ My kids going to grow up.
Going to [C] grow up to be a fool.
Because they ain't got no more room.
No more room for him in [F] school.
And everybody want to know.
Everybody want to know [E] why I'm singing the blues.
[C] _ _ _ I say, [G] I've been around a long [Dm] time.
[F] Yes, I've [C] really paid my dues.
_ _ Yeah, [G] [E] you know, the prophet, he told me, yes, you're going to lose.
Everybody around me, people, it seems like everybody [Ab] got the [A] blues.
But I had them a long time.
_ _ I've really, [C] really paid [Am] my dues.
_ _ [E] [Bb] You [G] know, I ain't ashamed of it, people.
[F] I just [Gm] love to sing my [F] blues.
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_ _ [G] _ _ _ [C] walk through the city, people, on my bare feet.
I don't feel like catfishing, kidding.
Walking down [F] Beale Street, you know I'm [Eb] singing the [F] blues.
_ Yes, [Cm] I really, I just have to sing my blues.
_ [F] _ [G] I've been around [D] a long [F] time, people, I've really, [Cm] really paid [C] my [Gm] dues.
[C] _ [G] _ Now [C] all the time [Bb] it's catching up with me.
[C] As long as my youth, I look in [Bb] the mirror every day.
[C] And let it tell me the [F] truth, I'm singing the blues.
_ _ _ [B] [C] Mmm, I just have to [Bb] sing the [Am] blues.
_ _ [G] I've been around, _ .
_ [F] _ yes, yes, I've [Cm] really paid some dues.
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[F] Yeah, _ _ _ [C] _ _ _ .
_ _ _ [G] _ [Bb] they told me everything [C] would be set up to country.
_ Everything was fine.
I caught me a bus uptown, baby.
[F] And every people, all the people got the same trouble as [C] mine.
I got the blues.
Uh-huh.
_ _ [G] I've been around a long time.
[F] _ Mmm, [C] I really paid some dues.
One more time, fellas.
[G] _ _ [C] Blind man on the counter, begging for a dime.
The rollers come and caught him and throw him in the jail for a [F] crime.
I got the blues.
_ _ [C] Mmm, I'm singing my blues.
_ _ I've been [G] around a long [Dm] time.
_ Mmm, [Eb] I really paid [C] some dues.
Can we do just one more?.
_ [G] _ [Cm] Boy, [Bb] I thought I'd go down to the welfare to get myself [Cm] some printing stuff.
But [Bb] a lady stood up and she [F] said,.
You haven't [Eb] been around long enough.
That's why I got the blues.
[F] _ _ [Cm] Mmm, _ the blues.
[C] _ _ _ I said, [G] I've been around.
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_ [F] I've [Eb] really, really [C] paid my dues.
Well, one more [G] time.
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[Cm] _ [C] _ _ _ [G] _ [C] [E] I'm singing my blues.
I've been _ [C] _ _ [Cm] _ _ [C] _ _ [Am] _ .
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_ [C] _ _ _ _ [G] around [Em] _ .
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[C] _ _ [G] _ [C] a long time.
Mmm, I really paid some dues.
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[Bb] _ _ [C] _ [Cm] Can _ _ [F] _ .
_ [Eb] _ _ _ _ _ we [F] [Bb] do just one more?.
Boy, I thought I'd go down to the welfare to get myself some printing stuff.
Can we do just one more?.
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Boy, I thought I'd go down to the welfare to get myself some printing stuff.
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_ _ [E] _ [Gm] _ _ [C] _ Ha ha ha.
That's alright.
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Yeah!.
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