Night Life (Live in Paris, 1968)

[Intro]

Thank you very much

Tell me...tell me, do you like the blues?

Do you really like the blues? Good

Mmm...

[Verse 1]

In the evening, when the sun goes down

You’re gonna find me

Doin’ what I’m doin’ right now, and that's just sitting around

The night life, it ain’t no good life

But it’s my life, yes it is, mmm...

[Verse 2]

And all good people, good people, just like you and me

They’re sitting around dreaming

Sitting around dreaming about their used to be's

Well, the night life, ask anybody in it, it ain’t no good life

But that’s alright because it’s my life, oh, oh, yes it is

[Verse 3]

Oh, listen to the blues, to the blues and what they’re playing

I wonder tonight, are you really listening to the blues

To the blues and what they’re saying

What they seem to be playing to me that’s, that many people have loved

And they seem to be saying to me that many people have lost

Well, listen, they might not have loved at all

If they had know that they couldn’t pay the cost

[Outro]

Oh, they tell me, yeah, they tell me, yeah, they tell me, yeah, they tell me

They tell me that life is just an empty scene

They say that is older than the oldest broken hearts

And they tell me that is newer than the newest stood dreams

Well, the night life, what I’m doin’ right now ain’t no good life

But that’s alright with me, because it’s my life, yes it is

Ooh, I tell you that the night life sure ain’t no good life

Well, but it’s my life, yeah