What You Singing About?

The Devil and The Blues

Met the devil one day, drinking coffee at my favorite breakfast cafe. Devil was looking at me while I was reading my paper.

"What you want?" I asked the devil.

"Ain't never about what I want," Devil says. "Always about what you want."

"Don't want nothing," I says. "I look like a guy wants something?"

Devil just shrugged.

"I got me a good woman," I says.

Devil just says, "Uh huh." And he was agreeing.

"I got me a pair twin girls, sweet and spicy as gingerbread, love their daddy."

"Mm hmm," was all the devil says. He couldn't disagree.

"Got me a good job, gonna send my girls to school and buy my woman a fine little house."

"Sure that," the devil says. And he wasn't disagreeing with me. So I went back to reading my paper.

Devil was still looking at me.

"What you want?" I asked the devil.

"Ain't never about what I want," Devil says.

So I folded up my paper and I says, "Guess the only thing is, I always wanted to sing the blues."