I Gotta Right To Sing The Blues

I Gotta Right To Sing The Blues
music by Harold Arlen
lyric by Ted Koehler

I don't care who knows I am blue.
My song wouldn't take long to give my heart away.
I know it's plain my heart's in pain, my song couldn't belong to someone feeling gay...

I gotta right to sing the blues, I gotta right to feel low down,
I gotta right to hang around, down around the river.
A certain man in this old town, keeps draggin' my poor heart around,
All I see for me is misery.

I gotta right to sing the blues, I gotta right to moan and sigh,
I gotta right to sit and cry, down around the river.
I know the deep blue sea will soon be calling me.
It must be love say what you choose, I gotta right to sing the blues...