Текст песни: Livin' The Blues + перевод

(Everybody wanna sing my blues

Nobody wanna live my blues)

Oh, we are the blues, the blues people

(Livin' the blues)

For a long, long time (A long, long time)

We’ve been livin' the blues (We've been the blues)

For a long, long time

We’ve been paying dues (paying dues)

We’ve up and we’ve been down (we've been down)

Almost level to the ground

For a long, long time, we’ve been living the blues

(We've been living the blues, living the blues)

Since the days of Southern plantations, livin' the blues

(We've been livin' the blues)

400 years of humiliation and paying dues (paying dues)

Stripped of pride and humanity

All in the name of Christianity

For a long time, we’ve been living the blues (a long, long time)

(Livin' the blues)

Forced to watch our sons and daughters

Beaten, raped, and even slaughtered

Slavery left us in ruins

Constitutions says we’re only three-fifths human

Such a proud and royal people

Living separate and unequal

Jim Crow was the rule

Instead of 40 acres and a mule

(This is the blues, livin' the blues)

(Everybody wanna sing my blues

Nobody wanna live my blues)

Moved up north, thought we’d be free from livin' the blues

(We've been livin' the blues)

But we only found agony in paying dues (paying dues)

Ghettos, projects, and tenement slums

No better off than where we come from

For a long, long time, we’ve been livin' the blues

(We've been livin' the blues, livin' the blues)

We’ve come through the storms and rain

Heartache and pain

Living from day to day

Trying hard to find our way

We keep holding on

Living the blues has made us strong

No matter what, we know we can take it

No doubt about it, we gonna make it

(Blues, livin' the blues)

(Everybody wanna sing my blues

Nobody wanna live my blues

Livin' the blues has made us stronger) Made us strong

(We gotta keep holding on) Keep holding on

(No matter what, we know we can take it)

We can take it

(No doubt about it, we’re gonna make it)

(Everybody wanna sing my blues) Nobody

(Nobody wanna live my blues) Nobody

(Livin' the blues has made us strong)

Through the storm (We gotta keep holding on)

Keep holding on

(No matter what, we know we can make it)

I know (No doubt about it, we’re gonna make it)

Everybody (Everybody wanna sing my blues)

They wanna sing our blues

(Nobody wanna live my blues) Nobody

(Livin' the blues has made us strong) Oh

(We gotta keep holding on) Holding on

(No matter what, we know we can take it)

We take it (No doubt about it, we’re gonna make it)

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