Why I Sing The Blues Chords by Bb King

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_ _ Everybody wanna know, I sing the blues.
_ [F] Everybody [Cm] wanna know, [C] I sing the blues.
[Eb] _ [G] _ [F] Been a long time, [C] really been my blues.
_ _ Got the blues, and dropped over a ship.
I was in, standing over me.
[F] Not knowing where we were, everybody wanna know,
[C] why I sing the blues.
_ _ [Dm] _ [Cm] Been a long time, really been my blues.
Let's have a [C] drink, you get me?
Let me get on, hold it now.
It's a perfect set.
[Cm] It's not, [F] everybody wanna know, why I sing the [Am] blues.
[Cm] _ [G] Oh, been around a [F] long time, [Cm] really been my blues.
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Let's have a jam.
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_ [F] _ _ _ _ [C] I sing the blues.
_ I've been [G] _ [F] _ [Cm] out playing on the floor.
[Gm] [C] It's a good old show.
Where I _ could be for eight months,
[F] I've been out on all _ [C] _
fours.
[G] And I'm not about [A] _ [C] to sing the blues.
Oh, _ _ _ _ _ _
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_ _ [F] _ _ [A] _ [C] why I sing the blues.
_ _ [Gm] _ _ [F] _ _ [C] Like every day, I'm _ catching up with it.
Gone is my youth.
Look in the mirror every day.
[Eb] _ _ [F] _ _ [C] Why I sing the blues.
_ [G] Been a [A] long time, [F] [C] really been my blues.
Let's have a drink. _ _ _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ Thank you so much.
Thank you.
_ I _ said tonight is about the blues.
And tonight, I [G] believe everybody has had the blues [N] at one time or another.
So tonight, knowing that it is about the blues, it's going to be short talk and a lot of music, believe me.
And to start it off, a young lady that I've wanted to do something with for a long, long time.
And tonight, it seems like to me I'm going to get that chance.
Ladies and gentlemen, will you please welcome Miss Gladys Knight.
Make her happy, please.
Miss Gladys