"Night Life" — Willie Nelson's blues standard. The night as the blues man's natural element.
When that ev'nin' sun goes down,
yeah, you'll find me hangin' around
Because the night life,
it ain't no good life but it's my life
Yeah, yeah, yeah listen to the blues,
listen to what they're sayin'
Oh, please listen to the blues,
listen to the blues they're playin'
Ah, ah, all of the people just like you and me,
they're all dreamin' about their old used to be
Because the night life,
it ain't no good life but it's my life
They tell me life's an empty scene,
an avenue of broken dreams
Because the night life,
it ain't no good life but it's my life
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- Written by Willie Nelson (1963). The night life — staying up, the darkness as a home — is the blues tradition's natural habitat. B.B. King recorded it multiple times.