[00:00.00]时代音乐网 www.78497.com  [00:00.09]Ike - Why I Sing The Blues [00:24.04]Everybody wants to know [00:27.42]Why I sing the blues [00:31.12]Yes  I say everybody wanna know [00:35.00]Why I sing the blues [00:38.79]Well  I've been around for a long time [00:42.09]I really have paid my dues [00:46.74]When I first got the blues [00:48.75]They brought me over on a ship [00:51.08]Men were standing over me [00:52.86]And a lot more with a whip [00:54.64]And everybody wanna know [00:57.72]Why I sing the blues [01:01.45]Well  I've been around for a long time [01:04.38]Mm  I've really paid my dues [01:09.30]I've laid in a ghetto flat [01:11.72]Cold and numb [01:13.41]I heard the rats tell the bedbugs [01:15.63]To give the roaches some [01:17.02]Everybody wanna know [01:20.46]Why I'm singing the blues [01:24.09]Yes  I've been around for a long time [01:27.20]People  I've paid my dues [01:54.37]I stood in line [01:56.76]Down at the county hall [01:58.30]I heard a man say [01:59.43]We're gonna build [02:00.80]Some new apartments for y'all [02:01.85]And everybody wanna know [02:05.46]Why I'm singing the blues [02:09.08]Yes I've been around for a long time [02:11.92]People I'll tell you I've  paid my dues [02:24.59]Everybody wanna know [02:27.91]Why I'm singing the blues [02:31.85]I say I've been around a long time [02:34.21]Yes  I've really paid some dues [02:57.08]I've really paid my dues