Janis Ian - Honey D'ya Think? Lyrics
So you want to be an artist
And the only way to do it is to suffer
And you want to be cool
So you fake it 'til you can grow upper
Ah, yes, you've got money in your pants
Or are the pleasures of the peasants
Too lowly for your glance?
Honey, d'you think you've got a right to sing the blues
Because you live in the street and have no shoes?
You choose, you lose, and it don't give you
The right to sing the blues
You want to be cool
You wear your shades across your face, you never smile
Would think that you have paid your dues, and now you're retired
You're all against the Viet Nam war, you make it plain
You go to all the marches in an ecstasy of pain
But you couldn't spare a quarter for a blind man on the corner
Standing there in the rain
Honey, d'you think you've got a right to sing the blues
Because you live in the street and have no shoes?
You choose, you lose, and it don't give you
The right to sing the blues
Yes, you want to be a Negro
Try to prove that you have soul, but it's all gone
And you want to be a martyr
So you moan about your problems just like old Uncle Tom
Ah, honey, don't you see
Blues is more than just a fabricated mystery
You've got to get out of it to get into it
And then you can sing
Honey, d'you think you've got a right to sing the blues
Because you live in the street and have no shoes?
You choose, you lose, and it don't give you
The right to sing the blues
Other Lyrics by Artist
- Janis Ian - Welcome To Acousticville
- Janis Ian - No One Else Like You
- Janis Ian - Tenderness
- Janis Ian - Take No Prisoners
- Janis Ian - Ready For The War
- Janis Ian - Breaking Silence
- Janis Ian - Some People's Lives
- Janis Ian - This House
- Janis Ian - Through The Years
- Janis Ian - This Train Still Runs
- Janis Ian - Walking On Sacred Ground
- Janis Ian - His Hands
- Janis Ian - What About The Love
- Janis Ian - Davy
- Janis Ian - When The Silence Falls
- Janis Ian - Hunger
- Janis Ian - Searching For America
- Janis Ian - Getting Over You
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Janis Ian Honey D'ya Think? Comments
WONDERFOOOOOOL
if you get the verve years cd you will have her complete 4 albums she made in the sixties
Thank you, for the real music, absolutely magic.
I've got a copy in mint condition of the first LP...but this one I have never seen before...thanks for uploading!
magical and simply beautiful
I have this (in a box somewhere). Great to see and hear it here! She was only16 when she wrote and recorded these songs!
...... not unknown here!!! One of my all-time favs and far less crackly than my copy. Excellent! Thankyou!
Thank you, thank you, thank you. Have been waiting ages to see this on Youtube. I had a version on a reel-to-reel tape recorded from a friend's mono record back in 1973. This stereo version makes it sound so much better. Once again, thank you.
It's a pleasure! You're welcome (: