No Matter What You Got,

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.

They Wasn't Gonna Give You Nothin'. I Didn't Care As Long As They Let Me Play My Music. Cash On The Spot... You Cheat Me And I'm Gonna Get Me Some Money, Too.

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.

Since You Knew They Was Goin' To Cheat You Anyway, I Recorded Under Any Name With All Of 'em.

If They Played More Blues, People Would Just Get It - They Try To Hold It Back But Just About Can't Hold It Back Now Because The Blues Is Really Going.