text:  It can make you happy, and you put a beat with it, it can make you dance. It's got all kinds of sentimental value to it. It's the way you take it. It's the way that your mishappenings happen to you, or your good fortunes, it can make you laugh. Anything that's been good to you, that's the blues. Anything that misused you, that's the blues. If you work for the boss, man, he'll pay you, that's the blues. And if you got a house and he put you out, that's the blues.