B.B. King live: Inflation Blues

Here's a song, "Inflation Blues," that goes back, I think, to the 1940s when Louis Jordan recorded it. In 1983 B.B. King, for his Blues 'N' Jazz album, cut his version--it is the opening track. "Inflation Blues" was timely in the early 1980s and it sure is now, with the inflation rate regularly hitting 40-year highs. 

Hey Mr. President
All your congressmen, too 

You got me frustrated 

And I don't know what to do 

I'm trying to make a living I can't save a cent 

It takes all of my money 

Just to eat and pay my rent 

I got the blues 

Got those inflation blues

Do you have those blues too? I got 'em.