But I Don't Want To Do No

But I Don't Want To Do No Big Tours Or Go Out On The Road.

I Don't Like No Fancy Chords. Just The Boogie. The Drive. The Feeling. A Lot Of People Play Fancy But They Don't Have No Style. It's A Deep Feeling-you Just Can't Stop Listening To That Sad Blues Sound. My Sound.

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.

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 Hitchhiked, Took Trucks 'n' Trains - Anything That Would Pick Me Up. I Stopped In Memphis For About Six Months And They Found Me And Come Got Me. Stayed About A Month An' Split Again.