Black‐Eyed Blues Songtext
von Esther Phillips

I need a vaccination
For the black-eyed blues
Total fascination
For the color I choose
I don′t mind
If you turn me around
Just as long as it gets found
Whoa, found

Certain declaration
To the black-eyed blues
Total destination
For the color I choose
I don't mind, no baby
If you let it ride
Just as long as you let it shine
Whoa, let it shine


I need a vaccination
For the black-eyed blues
Total destination
For the color I choose
I said I just don′t
I don't, I don't mind, no
If you turn me around
Just as long as it gets found
Whoa, let it be found

I need indoctrination
To the old-time blues
Total fascination
For the color I choose
I just don′t
I don′t mind, no
If it's up or down
Just as long as it′s turning around
Whoa, Lord, keep it turning around

Certain declaration
To the black-eyed blues
Total destination
For the color I choose
I said I just don't
I don′t, I don't mind, no baby
If you let it ride
Just as long as you let it shine
Whoa, let it shine


When I was a little girl
I was vaccinated for something I wasn′t supposed to have anyhow
Now that I'm a woman
I've decided it had to be
For the black-eyed blues

Now I don′t care what nobody thinks of me
Because nobody that I know wants to get up early in the morning
And look in the mirror
And be ugly with a black eye
You know what I mean?
If you don′t like the way I live my life
You don't have to try

We can′t be side by side, that's all
′Cause it's the color I choose
Ain′t nobody's business, you understand, what I do
Or what I want

Who I do

Or who I don't
Or who I will
Or who I won′t
I don′t want to have the black-eyed blues no more, baby
It's been too long, too long and hard

Mmm, yeah

Yeah
Yeah

The declaration to the black-eyed blues
Is for the color I choose
Now I don′t mind
I don't mind if you turn me around
Just keep on turning and turning and turning and turning
As long as it gets found
The black-eyed blues
Now if you don′t like it
Like I said
Let it ride

But just let it shine