Good mornin’, blues, blues how do you do?
Good mornin’, blues, blues how do you do?
I’m doin’ all right, good mornin’, how are you?

In this opening exchange, “the blues” are treated as a familiar visitor—something the singer can address, greet, and even banter with. The call-and-response structure (repeating the greeting, then answering it) dramatizes an inner dialogue: the speaker acknowledges sorrow without being wholly overcome by it. The line “I’m doin’ all right” can be read as defiance, self-soothing, or ironic bravado—an insistence on resilience even while the blues remain present. As a blues lyric, it also foregrounds the genre’s characteristic blend of humor, repetition, and emotional candor, turning private feeling into a performable, communal ritual.