Lyrics Goin’ Down Slow.lrc B.B. King
[id: ushunacj]
[ar: B.B. King]
[al: King Of The Blues]
[ti: Goin’ Down Slow]
[length: 06:31]
[00:03.05]Alright, alright.
[00:14.09]Thank you so much ladies and gentlemen right here,
[00:17.92]right here I want to tell you a little story.
[00:22.38]This is about a country boy from down home.
[00:29.43]This young man has never been north before.
[00:32.88]I want you to listen to me, I got something to tell you.
[00:35.15]He heard about Chicago.
[00:42.43]He worked hard over here, made all of that money, 800 dollars.
[00:50.07]After caring for his crop, he called his cousin in Chicago,
[00:55.57]and he said, “Cousin, I’m on my way”.
[00:59.95]He picked all of that cotton.
[01:04.66]I said this is about a country boy like myself, B.B. King you know.
[01:09.16]So when he get to Chicago, his cousin meet him and bring him out to the club.
[01:15.15]He said, “Set him up!”, cous’s payin’ for.
[01:23.46]Had all the go-go girls set up, waitin’ up.
[01:27.62]They carried him downtown and put him up in one of the pleasure hotels.
[01:33.49]They brought him back out and said, “Set him up!”, cous’s payin’ for.
[01:46.43]His money got a little lighter, they lured him out from the Lute and brought him down to Robert’s.
[01:55.35]And then he said, “Set him up!”, cous’s payin’ for.
[02:05.84]And then the 800 dollars, bein’ more money then my man had ever had, began to run out.
[02:12.88]Then they moved him out and put him down with the …
[02:15.43]And then, ladies and gentlemen, the go-go girls would get fewer.
[02:25.62]His friends was fewer.
[02:28.54]All his buddies are startin’ passin’ him on the other side of the street.
[02:34.00]And then it happened all his buddies were gone.
[02:37.98]And my man knew only one thing to do, it was getting cold there, like it is today,
[02:45.27]you know what I’m talking about.
[02:47.02]He went down to the railroad yard,
[02:51.03]and one of the few ladies that had helped him to spent his money, came by to see him.
[02:56.42]And she said “You fool!, you fool!”, I wouldn’t have spend your money, but the rest of them was spending your money so I decided to spend my portion too, you know.
[03:09.21]But ladies, God bless ’em, wonderful something’s aren’t they?.
[03:15.09]They always like to feel like they’re needed, and she knew my man needed her bad.
[03:22.31]He gotten sick, he’s layin’ down there under the boxcar.
[03:32.23]Couldn’t read so well, so you know if he couldn’t read so well, he couldn’t write too well,
[03:38.07]you know what I’m talkin’ about?
[03:40.65]So this is a letter back down home, I know what I’m talkin’ about.
[03:43.72]It go like this:
[03:46.92]I’ve had my fun, whoah, if I don’t get well no more
[04:00.48]Whoah, I’ve had my fun, people, ooh, if I don’t get well no more
[04:16.99]Yes, my health is faillin’ on me now, people
[04:26.60]Ooh, and I’m goin’, goin’ down slow
[04:37.03]Yes, tell my mother, people, please tell her the shape I’m in
[04:54.56]Ooh yes, tell my people, mother, tell her the shape I’m in
[05:08.36]Tell her to pray for me, people, ooh, to forgive, people, my sins
[05:23.59]Oohooh mother, mother I live alone with my prayers
[05:46.02]Ooh, tell my mother, people, tell her this is all in prayers
[05:59.08]Yes, if you don’t see this old body, mother
[06:09.28]Hey, you know I’m out in the world somewhere
[06:15.26]Year of Release: 1991