It's Never Hard To Sing

Poor People Have The Blues Because They're Poor And Hungry. Rich People Can't Sleep At Night Because They're Trying To Hold On To Their Money And Everything They Have.

I Been Doing The Same Things As In My Younger Days, When I Was Coming Up, And Now Here I Am, An Old Man, Up There In The Charts. And I Say, Well, What Happened? Have They Just Thought Up The Real John Lee Hooker, Is That It? And I Think, Well, I Won't Tell Nobody Else! I Can't Help But Wonder What Happened.

I Don't Like No Fancy Chords. Just The Boogie. The Drive. The Feeling. A Lot Of People Play Fancy But They Don't Have No Style. It's A Deep Feeling-you Just Can't Stop Listening To That Sad Blues Sound. My Sound.

I Have Heartaches, I Have Blues. No Matter What You Got, The Blues Is There. 'cause That's All I Know - The Blues. And I Can Sing The Blues So Deep Until You Can Have This Room Full Of Money And I Can Give You The Blues.

I Went On To Cincinnati. I Had Got A Taste Of The Big Cities And Them Bright Lights. I Stayed There Until I Was About 18 Or 19 And Then I Went On To Detroit.