B.B. KING HAS PASSED AWAY - A LEGEND GONE - HIS LEGACY WILL REMAIN FOREVER - SAY LUCILLE AND IT CONJURES A TUNE - HE PLAYED THE GUITAR - AS NO ONE EVER DID BEFORE - A STYLE OF HIS OWN - TO HIS DYING DAY.

THE PASSING OF B.B. KING

When I was young - I loved Lucille

More, B.B. who played Lucille

The King sang a song - from his heart

Often time leaving one dumb founded for words

Deep and mellow - he scored
each and every time he played and sang a tune

Born to a share cropper family
he worked hard - and toiled early on in life
He picked cotton - and saw an opportunity

To leave Mississippi and head for Memphis

Where he struck that single cord
and all that went with it - he made a name

You knew that distinct tone

None other than B.B King could be 
that guitar - a Gibson - named Lucille

John Mayall, the great Jim Hendrix

Buddy Guy Eric Clapton

Otis Rush Keith Richards

Hundreds more who chose to emulate

the greatest guitarist 

the King of the Blues

Single string runs - punctuated by loud

cords - subtle vibratos and bent notes

You heard Lucille and you recognized B.B King

he could bring chills to any audience

I saw people weep - tears of joy

The undisputed King of the Blues

Mentor to scores of guitarists

savior to those that needed help
a spokesman for Diabetes

the legend is no more at age 89

We will remembered - for a long, long time

"people all over the world have problems"

he said. "and as long as people have problems, the blues can never die"

Blue figures the likes Charley Patton

Robert Johnson - guitarist Billy Gibbons

T-Bone Walker - Django Reinhardt

all had some influence on B.B. King

B.B. King received the

Presidential Medal of Freedom

B.B.King was inducted into the 

Blues Hall of Fame in 1984

He presented a guitar to

Pope John Paul II

He had President Barack Hussein Obama

sing along - " Sweet Home Chicago"
He was at ease with all - the famous
those that were ordinary women and men

B.B. King a humble man who submitted

with music brought thousands together

Often performing over 250 concerts a year

A preacher uncle taught him to play the guitar

Mississippi Delta - the birth place

of BLUES