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| 1. |
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| 2. |
| 3:50 | 
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I've got a sweet little angel
I love the way she spread her wings Yes got a sweet little angel I love the way she spread her wings Yes, when she spreads her wings around me I get joy, and everything You know I asked my baby for a nickel And she gave me a $20 bill Oh yes, I asked my baby for a nickel And she gave me a $20 bill Whoah, you know I ask her to buy a little drink of liquor And she gave me a whiskey still Oh, if my baby should quit me I believe I would die Oh if my baby should quit me Lord I do believe I would die Yes if you don't love me little angel Please tell me the reason why |
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| 3. |
| 2:45 |
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I've been down hearted baby
ever since the day we met I said I've been down hearted baby ever since the day we met our love is nothing but the blues, woman baby, how blue can you get? You're evil when I'm with you, baby and you're jealous when we're apart I said You're evil when I'm with you, baby and you're jealous when we're apart how blue can you get baby the answer is right here in my heart I gave you a brand new Ford But you said: I want a Cadillac I bought you a ten dollar dinner and you said: thanks for the snack I let you live in my pent house you said it just a shack I gave seven children and now you wanna give them back I said I've been down hearted baby ever since the day we met our love is nothing but the blues baby, how blue can you get? |
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| 4. |
| 2:36 |
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You act like you don't want to listen
When I'm talking to you You think you outta do baby Anything you wanna do You must be crazy baby You just gotta be outta your mind As long as I'm payin' the bills woman I'm payin' the cost to be the boss I'll drink if I want to And play a little poker too Don't you say nothing to me As long as I'm taking care of you As long as I'm workin baby And payin' all the bills I don't want no mouth from you About the way I'm supposed to live You must be crazy woman Just gotta be outta your mind As long as I foot the bills I'm payin' the cost to be the boss Now that you got me You act like you ashamed You don't act like my woman You just usin' my name I tell you I'm gonna have all the money And I don't want no back-talk Cause if you don't like the way I'm doin' Just pick up your things and walk You gotta be crazy baby You must be outta your mind As long as I'm payin' the bills woman I'm payin' the cost to be the boss |
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| 5. |
| 5:13 |
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Baby, I don't wanna a soul,
Hangin around my house when I'm not home. Oh, I don't want a soul, baby, Hangin' around my house when I'm not home. I don't want you to open the door for nobody, woman, Oh, when you're home and you know you're all alone. Your sister might wanna visit us, But the little girl she talk too much. If she just come by to visit us, Tell her to meet us Sunday, Sunday, down at the church. 'Cause I don't want a soul, baby, Hangin' around my house when I'm not at home. Yes, I don't want you to open the door for nobody, baby, Oh, when you're home and you know you're all alone. Your mother might wanna visit us, But you tell you mamma I get home bout the break a day. And that's too late to visit anybody, baby, So, tell you mamma to please, please, please stay away. 'Cause I don't want a soul, baby, Hangin' around my house when I'm not at home. Yes, I don't want you to open the door for anybody, woman, Oh, when you're home and you know you're all alone. You might feel a little sick, baby, And you know you're home all alone, I don't want the doctor at my house, baby, You just suffer, suffer, suffer till I get home. 'Cause I don't want a soul, baby, Hangin' around my house when I'm not at home. Yes, I don't want you to open the door for nobody, woman, Baby, when you're home and all alone. Yeah! |
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| 6. |
| 8:41 |
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Everybody wants to know
Why I sing the blues Yes, I say everybody wanna know Why I sing the blues Well, I've been around a long time I really have paid my dues When I first got the blues They brought me over on a ship Men were standing over me And a lot more with a whip And everybody wanna know Why I sing the blues Well, I've been around a long time Mm, 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 Why I'm singing the blues Yes, I've been around a long time People, I've paid my dues I stood in line Down at the County Hall I heard a man say, "We're gonna build Some new apartments for y'all" And everybody wanna know Yes, they wanna know Why I'm singing the blues Yes, I've been around a long, long time Yes, I've really, really paid my dues Now I'm gonna play Lucille. My kid'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 And everybody wanna know Everybody wanna know Why I'm singing the blues I say I've been around a long time Yes, I've really paid some dues Yeah, you know the company told me Guess you're born to lose Everybody around me, people It seems like everybody got the blues But I had 'em a long time I've really, really paid my dues You know I ain't ashamed of it, people I just love to sing my blues I walk through the cities, people On my bare feet I had a fill of catfish and chitterlings Up in Downbill Street You know I'm singing the blues Yes, I really I just have to sing my blues I've been around a long time People, I've really, really paid my dues Now Father Time is catching up with me Gone is my youth I look in the mirror everyday And let it tell me the truth I'm singing the blues Mm, I just have to sing the blues I've been around a long time Yes, yes, I've really paid some dues Yeah, they told me everything Would be better out in the country Everything was fine I caught me a bus uptown, baby And every people, all the people Got the same trouble as mine I got the blues, huh huh I say I've been around a long time I've really paid some dues One more time, fellows! Blind man on the corner Begging for a dime The rollers come and caught him And throw him in the jail for a crime I got the blues Mm, I'm singing my blues I've been around a long time Mm, I've really paid some dues Can we do just one more? Oh 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" That's why I got the blues Mm, the blues I say, I've been around a long time I've really, really paid my dues Fellows, tell them one more time. Ha, ha, ha. That's all right, fellows. Yeah! |
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| 7. |
| 5:28 |
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The thrill is gone
The thrill is gone away The thrill is gone baby The thrill is gone away You know you done me wrong baby And you'll be sorry someday The thrill is gone It's gone away from me The thrill is gone baby The thrill is gone away from me Although, I'll still live on But so lonely I'll be The thrill is gone It's gone away for good The thrill is gone baby It's gone away for good Someday I know I'll be open armed baby Just like I know a good man should You know I'm free, free now baby I'm free from your spell Oh I'm free, free, free now I'm free from your spell And now that it's all over All I can do is wish you well |
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| 8. |
| 3:33 |
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My song is a serious matter
It reflects what I feel If I say I love you, I mean it 'Cause in my song Every line is for real Every man or woman Enjoys going home To a peaceful situation To give love and receive love Without any complications Whether my tune is short or long Whether my lyrics are weak or strong I like to live the love That I sing about in my song I like to live the love That I sing about in my song Music is love And my love is music In perfect harmony So when I sing I have sung all about The love of you and me I never got angry with my guitar 'Cause when I strike a chord It gives me what I wanna hear So I'm finding out that We are quite like my song together, my dear Outside answers Should always be forbidden Problems should be solved And never hidden I like to live the love That I sing about in my song I like to live the love That I sing about in my song |
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| 9. |
| 4:37 |
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Sometimes I get impatient
but she cools me without words and she comes so sweet and so plain my hummingbird and have you heard that I thought my life had ended but I find that it's just begun cause she gets me where I live I'll give all I have to give I'm talking about that hummingbird oh she's little and she loves me too much for words to say when I see her in the morning sleeping she's little and she loves me to my lucky day hummingbird don't fly away When I'm feeling wild and lonesome she knows the words to say and she gives me a little understanding in her special way and I just have to say in my life I loved a woman because she's more than I deserve and she gets me where I live I'll give all I have to give I'm talking about that hummingbird oh she's little and she loves me too much for words to say when I see her in the morning sleeping she's little and she loves me to my lucky day hummingbird don't fly away |
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| 10. |
| 3:53 |
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To know you is to love you
But to know me is not that way, you see 'Cause you made me so happy That my love for you grows endlessly When I'm down and feeling sad You always comfort me When I'm down and feeling sad You always comfort me Baby, to know you is to love you You smile when I see your face 'Cause there ain't no one on this earth Baby, could ever, ever take your place When I'm down and feeling sad You always comfort me When I'm down and feeling sad You always comfort me Oh to know you is to love you Is to see you being free as the wind 'Cause the power of your loving Is too strong to hold within To know you is to love you To see you blowing free in the breeze The power of your loving I never found a woman like you That could be my lover And my best friend I know you and I think I love you I know you and I think I love you I know you and can't you feel our love Just growing, growing, growing Growing, growing, growing Hey, I know you and I think I love you I know you and I think I love you I know you and can't you feel our love Just growing, growing, growing Growing, growing, doggone it, baby I know you and I think I love you I know you and I think I love you I know you and can't you feel our love Just growing, growing, growing Growing, growing, hey doggone it, baby I know you and I think I love you I know you and I think I love you And I think you love me, too Mm baby, I know you |
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| 11. |
| 4:57 |
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| 12. |
| 3:23 |
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I've been around and I've seen some things
People moving faster than the speed of sound Faster than the speeding bullet People living like Superman All day and all night And I won't say if it's wrong or if it's right I'm pretty fast myself But I do have some advice to pass along Along in the chorus of this song Better not look down If you want to keep on flying Put the hammer down Keep it full speed ahead Better not look back Or you might just wind up crying You can keep it moving If you don't look down An old girl friend of mine showed up the other day That girl have lived in love and for love And over love, and under love all her life If the arrows from cupid's bow that had Passed through her heart had been sticking Out of her body she would have looked like A porcupine, and she asked me B.B. do you think I've lived my life all wrong? And I said: The only advice I have to pass Along in the chorus of this song Girl Better not look down If you want to keep on flying Put the hammer down Keep it full speed ahead Better not look back Or you might just wind up crying You can keep it moving If you don't look down I was walking down the street at sunrise one morning In London, England And there was a very large Rolls Royce Limousine Pulling slowly along the street And in that Rolls Royce was the Queen of England Looking tired Just go back from a party, and the Queen leaned out and She said: Aren't you B.B. King? She said: Oh B.B., sometimes it's so hard to pull things together Could you tell me what you think I ought to do? And I said: Better not look down If you want to keep on flying Put the hammer down Keep it full speed ahead Better not look back Or you might just wind up crying You can keep it moving If you don't look down |
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| 5:33 |
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Three days of snow in Birmingham
Thought you would wonder where I am Rang our number all night long It's no comfort on the telephone Ran out and caught a midnight flight Thought a little love would make everything all right The landlord said you moved away And left me all your bills to pay Look out baby, you might have made your move too soon Left me with a Keno card This life in Vegas sure ain't hard I ran it up to about fifty grand Cashed it in and held it in my hand That kind of word can get around And make a lost love come up found I hear you knocking baby at my door But you know you ain't living here no more It's too bad I think you made your move too soon I've been from Spain to Tokyo From Africa to Ohio I never tried to make the news I'm just a man who plays the blues I take my lovin' everywhere I come back, and they still care you know One love ahead One love behind One in my arms and one on my mind It's one thing baby I never make my move too soon I've been from Spain to Tokyo From Africa to Ohio I never tried to make the news I'm just a man who plays the blues I take my lovin' everywhere I come back, you know they still all care One love ahead and one behind One in my arms you know, one on my mind And it's one thing people I never make my move too soon |
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| 14. |
| 3:49 |
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(B.B. King)
Sometimes I wonder Just what am I fighting for? I win some battles But I always lose the war I keep right on stumblin' In this no-man's land out here But I know Mmmmm yes, I know There must be a better world somewhere Flying high Some joker clips my wings Just because he gets a kick Out of doing those kind of things I keep on fallin' in space Or just hangin' in mid-air But I know Ohh yes, I know There has just got to be a better world somewhere Every woman I want Only wants herself Everybody I love Seems to love somebody else And every woman Got a license to break my heart And every love, oh it's over Over before it gets a chance to start If it ain't dead Maybe in the year after Instead of tears I'll learn all about laughter But meanwhile I'm stuck out here It just ain't fair, but I know I said I know Oh yes, I know There must be a better world somewhere There's just gotta be Gotta be a better world somewhere |
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| 15. |
| 5:21 |
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I'm gonna call up some of my buddies,
And a few of the ladies I know I'm gonna rent a hall and get them all and, Put on a heck of a show Make sure we got a kitchen, With a oven and a stove We'll all get in there cookin', Then we'll throw open all the doors Playin' with my friends, Playin' with my friends, Playin' with my friends We'll have a good time, Playin' with my friends I'm gonna buy a 100 pounds of catfish, Cook it all up on the grill Fix some beans and corn bread, Everybody's gonna get their fill Then we'll grab all the guitars, Greasy hands and all Someone'll count off a shuffle, And man we'll have a ball Playin' with my friends, Playin' with my friends, Playin' with my friends We'll have a good time, Playin' with my friends Yes, we gonna buy some of that red, red wine, The best that money can buy You gotta drink it all from a paper cup, That this here Saturday life is right Everybody's gonna stand up, Play their favorite tune You can pick any tune you want to, As long as it's the blues Playin' with my friends, Playin' with my friends, Playin' with my friends We'll have a good time, Playin' with my friends |
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| 4:13 |
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