"Nobody Loves Me But My Mother" — his most self-deprecating blues joke.
Nobody loves me, but my mother,
And she could me jivin' too.
Nobody loves me, but my mother,
And she could me jivin' too.
Now you see why I act so funny, baby,
When you do the things you do.
Знаете ли вы, что...
- A B.B. King original. The full lyric continues: "and she could be jivin' too." The blues tradition's capacity for self-mocking humour — even the most fundamental relationship held under suspicion.