Five Long Years - B.B. King

If you ever been mistreated, then you know just what I’m talking about

If you ever been mistreated people, you know just what I’m talking about

I tell you I worked, I worked five long years for a woman

And she had the nerve to put me out

You know I got a job in a steel mill, trucking steel like a slave

Five long years, every Friday I went straight home with all of my pay

If you ever been mistreated people then you know just what I’m talking about

I tell you I worked, I worked five long years for a woman

And she had the nerve to put me out

But you know, I finally learned a lesson, a long, long time ago

The next woman that I marry, she gotta work and bring in the dough

If you been mistreated people then you know just what I’m talking about

I tell you I worked, I worked five long years for a woman

She had the nerve, she had the nerve to put me out