I'm havin' trouble with my woman, all we do is fight

She wanna keep me home, but I go to work at night

There's nothin' I can do, she never understands

That's what it is, when you got a bluesman

She come home from her job, all ready to play

And I got a gig, so it don't go that way

I try to make her happy, doin' what I can

'Cause that's what it is, when you got a bluesman

I won't ever change, though she want me to

"Cause music is the thing, that I need to do

I can't walk away, oh no, from who I am

Ohhh, that's what it is, when you got a bluesman

Ohhh ohhh oooh oooh ohhh

I'm a bluesman, yeah a bluesman

I've got my guitar

And it treat me right, all around the world

Oh, that's what it is, when you got a bluesman

Oh, that's how it is

I'm goin' back down to Brentwood, Mississippi

I'm gonna stop by the home of big Albert

Albert King, he was a bluesman

Every day I go, I'm gonna take a piece of him with me

A bluesman, ohhh, that's what it is

Howlin' Wolf, Muddy Waters, ohhh, Buddy Guy

I said I'm a bluesman

Ohhh, a bluesman