But I Don't Want To Do No

All My Life I Been Doin' What People Tell Me To Do. Now, I'm Telling Them.

I Don't Think About Time. You're Here When You're Here. I Think About Today, Staying In Tune.

I Been Doing The Same Things As In My Younger Days, When I Was Coming Up, And Now Here I Am, An Old Man, Up There In The Charts. And I Say, Well, What Happened? Have They Just Thought Up The Real John Lee Hooker, Is That It? And I Think, Well, I Won't Tell Nobody Else! I Can't Help But Wonder What Happened.

I Don't Play A Lot Of Fancy Guitar. I Don't Want To Play It. The Kind Of Guitar I Want To Play Is Mean, Mean Licks.

I Never Build Myself Us. I Let The People Do That. I'm The Most Laid-back Person, And I Let Them Build Me Up. If You Ask Me, I Say, 'i''m Just A Guy Playin' Some Blues.