Goin` Down Slow lyrics

Artist  : B.b. King 
Song : Goin` Down Slow



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 Alright, alright.

Thank you so much ladies
and gentlemen right here,

right here I want
to tell you a little story.

This is about a
country boy from down home.

This young man
has never been north before.

I want you to
listen to me, I got something to tell you.



He heard about Chicago.

He worked
hard over here, made all of that money, 800
dollars.

After caring for his crop, he
called his cousin in Chicago,

and he said,
"Cousin, I'm on my way".

He picked all of
that cotton.

I said this is about a country
boy like myself, B.B. King you know.

So when
he get to Chicago, his cousin meet him and bring
him out to the club.

He said, "Set him
up!", cous's payin' for.

Had all the go-go
girls set up, waitin' up.

They carried him
downtown and put him up in one of the pleasure
hotels.

They brought him back out and said,
"Set him up!", cous's payin' for.

His money
got a little lighter, they lured him out from the
Lute and brought him down to Robert's.

And
then he said, "Set him up!", cous's payin'
for.

And then the 800 dollars, bein' more
money then my man had ever had, began to run
out.

Then they moved him out and put him
down with the ...

And then, ladies and
gentlemen, the go-go girls would get fewer.

His friends was fewer.

All his buddies
are startin' passin' him on the other side of the
street.

And then it happened all his buddies
were gone.

And my man knew only one thing to
do, it was getting cold there, like it is
today,

you know what I'm talking about.

He went down to the railroad yard,

and one
of the few ladies that had helped him to spent his
money, came by to see him.

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.

But ladies, God bless 'em, wonderful
something's aren't they?.

They always like
to feel like they're needed, and she knew my man
needed her bad.

He gotten sick, he's layin'
down there under the boxcar.

Couldn't read
so well, so you know if he couldn't read so well,
he couldn't write too well,

you know what
I'm talkin' about?

So this is a letter back
down home, I know what I'm talkin' about.

It
go like this:



I've had my fun, whoah,
if I don't get well no more

Whoah, I've had
my fun, people, ooh, if I don't get well no
more

Yes, my health is faillin' on me now,
people

Ooh, and I'm goin', goin' down
slow



Yes, tell my mother, people,
please tell her the shape I'm in

Ooh yes,
tell my people, mother, tell her the shape I'm
in

Tell her to pray for me, people, ooh, to
forgive, people, my sins



Oohooh
mother, mother I live alone with my prayers

Ooh, tell my mother, people, tell her this is
all in prayers

Yes, if you don't see this
old body, mother

Hey, you know I'm out in
the world somewhere