Annie Lennox

Released: October 21, 2014

Songwriter: Barney Bigard Duke Ellington

Producer: Mark Stevens Annie Lennox

[Verse 1]
You ain't been blue, no, no, no
You ain't been blue
'Til you've had that mood indigo
That feelin' goes stealin' down to my shoes
While I sit and sigh, "Go 'long blues"

[Verse 2]
Always get that mood indigo
Since my baby said goodbye
In the evening when lights are low
I'm so lonesome I could cry
'Cause there's nobody who cares about me
I'm just as blue as blue could be
Always get that mood indigo
Since my baby said goodbye

[Bridge]
Blues on my mind
Blues all around my head, ooh ooh ooh
Blues on my mind
Blues all around my head, ooh hoo, yeah
Woke up this morning
But I'd be better off dead, uh-huh

[Verse 3]
You ain't been blue, no, no, no
You ain't been blue
'Til you've had that mood indigo
That feelin' goes stealin' down to my shoes
While I sit and sigh, "Go 'long blues"

[Bridge]
Blues on my mind
Blues all around my head, woo
Blues on my mind
Blues all around my head
Woke up this morning
But I'd be better off dead, uh-huh

[Outro]
Take it away boys, yeah
Come on, play that thing, oh oh
Yeah, woo

[Instrumental]

Annie Lennox is an award-winning singer, songwriter and activist who has sold over 80 million records worldwide between her solo work and the duo Eurythmics. At seventeen, Lennox won a scholarship to London’s Royal Academy of Music to become a flutist, but dropped out after feeling that classical music was “far too competitive” and “didn’t fit my kind of personality”.

While working as a waitress at a health food restaurant in London, Lennox met Dave Stewart, with whom she formed the band Catch with singer-songwriter Peet Coombes. Catch released one single before adding two more members and changing their name to The Tourists. Under that name, the band scored five UK hits before Coombes' substance abuse broke the band apart.

Lennox and Stewart continued writing together – with Stewart moving from guitar to synthesizer and Lennox adopting an androgynous look – and formed Eurythmics. Within a few years, the duo was propelled into international stardom when “Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This)”, a single from their second album, became a top ten hit in nine countries.

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