B.B. King - The Complete Collection

Paying the Cost to Be the Boss

You act like you don't wanna listen
When I'm talkin' to you
You think you outta do, baby
Anything you wanna do

You gotta be crazy, baby
You just gotta be out of your mind
As long as I'm payin' the bills
I'm payin' the cost to be the boss

I'll drink if I wanna
And play a little poker too
Don't you say nothing to me
As long as I'm takin' care of you

As long as I'm workin', baby
And payin' all the bills
I don't want no mouth from you
About the way I'm supposed to live

You gotta be crazy, baby
Just gotta be out of your mind
As long as I'm paying the bills
I'm paying the cost to be the boss (oh)

Now that you got me
You act like you're ashamed
You don't act like my baby
You're just using my name

But I tell you, I'm gonna have all the money
And I don't want no back talk
If you don't like what I'm doing, baby
Pick up your things and walk

You gotta be crazy, baby
Just gotta be out of your mind
As long as I'm payin' the bills
I'm payin' the cost to be the boss



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Writer(s): B.b. King
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Other Album Tracks

  1. How Blue Can You Get?
  2. Every Day I Have the Blues (1964 / Live At the Regal Theater)
  3. All Over Again
  4. Don't Answer the Door
  5. Sweet Sixteen, Pts. 1 & 2 (1966 / Live At the International Club, Chicago)
  6. Paying the Cost to Be the Boss
  7. Why I Sing the Blues
  8. The Thrill Is Gone (1969 Single Version)
  9. Hummingbird
  10. Nobody Loves Me But My Mother

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Altri album

  1. In France: Live at The 1977 Nancy Jazz Pulsations Festival
  2. Blue Notes – A Blues Survey from 1920-1960, vol. 5 - Single
  3. B.B. King - Featuring
  4. So Lonely I'll Be (Live Seattle '71)
  5. Flying High
  6. My Faith - Gospel Songs
  7. Raw Blues
  8. How Blue Can You Get? (Live On The Ed Sullivan Show, October 18, 1970) - Single
  9. Four Classic Albums Plus (B.B. King Sings Spirituals / King of the Blues / More B.B. King / Easy Listening Blues) (Digitally Remastered)
  10. Remastered from the Archives

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