IF IT WASN'T FOR BAD LUCK



[Uh-Uh]

Wait a minute, Jimmy, look here

     I'm listenin'

As I was wakin' up this mornin'

     Well well

Oh Lord, you know I felt pretty good, Yes I did

I began to stretch and yawn

     What for Ray?

Just to see if I could

     I can dig it



All at once I got a funny feelin'

That something around here was goin on wrong

     Hmm

So you know what I did Jimmy?

     What?

I got up and I began to look all around for my baby

     Was that it?

That was it, you know the woman had packed up and gone

     Oh lord



That's why I say if everybody went to heaven

Hey-ey-ey, I believe I'd miss the call

But you see if it wasn't for bad luck,

Trying to tell you son if it wasn't for bad luck, now now

Oh, oh, I wouldn't have no luck at all

Would you believe I wouldn't have no luck at all



     Looka here Ray, you think your luck is bad?

     Listen ta what happen to me

Alright

     Now listen now

     Got a tip on a horse someone gave me, hey hey

Yeah

     Pawned my last suit to make the bet

No you didn't

     Yes I did

     Put every dime I had on him, ah

What?

     Listen, you know he ain't showed up yet



     Oh! Tell ya I got so disgusted now

Yeah

     Said I'll go back home and sleep some more

Now that seem like the right thing to do

     But by the time I got back to my room

     Are you listenin' Ray?

Yeah yeah, I'm payin' attention

     You know the landlord had padlocked my door

Why that dirty . . .



     Tell ya a slow horse and a fast woman

     Hey hey hey lord they sure did let me fall

     That's why I say ah

     If it wasn't for bad luck sugar now

     Hey if it wasn't for bad luck y'all

     Oh!  I wouldn't have no luck at all



     Oh Ray, listen, I wouldn't have no luck at all

Huh-Yep.  But wait a minute, you ain't heard nothin' yet

Let me tell you what happened

     Tell me about it



I decided I'd go out walkin'

     Say what?

Um-hm. And you know even that failed

     Now how can a walk fail, Ray?

Because some man snatched a woman's pocketbook way across town

     Say what?

Yeah, and uh guess who they put in jail?

     Do tell, do tell



Jimmy, I just can't understand it

     I know what you mean

I know there's got to be some kind of explanation

     There's got to be, there's got to be

Lord, lord, lord, lord I ain't done nothing wrong

So tell me why I'm doing two years probation

     Man I don't know, I got the same trouble



They got me having to walk a chump line

     Say what?

Oh, with my, with my back up against a wall

     That's tough, Ray

That's why if it wasn't for bad luck sugar

Oh I tell everybody if it wasn't for bad luck now now

I believe, I believe I would have no luck at all

I just wouldn't have no luck at all



     Looka here Ray, let me tell you something

Hm?

     Now you know, you know about this here

Yeah

     You know I was sittin' home one evening,

Well

     I didn't have a thing to do

Yeah, that's happened to me sometimes

     So I thought I'd go out dancin', you know

Yeah, yeah

     And do a little of that boogaloo

I, I kinda like that myself



     Finally, I got myself a partner, now

Yeah

     But old Ray, wouldn't you know

Mm-hm, somthing musta happened bad

     Some man said, "You got my woman, boy"

Uh oh

     And he stood about seven foot four

Oops!  Oops!

     As they walked away I stood there

     Feeling kinda sad and kinda small



     That's why I say

     If it wasn't for bad luck sugar

[whoa, if it wasn't for bad luck, y'all now

hey, hey, hey, we'd have no luck at all]



     Hey now

Yeah, I say we would have no luck at all

Jimmy, I want you to tell me about that seven foot four

What did you do!

     Well Ray, anytime a man is seven foot four

     and you messin' with his woman, it's time for you to go

Oh yeah?

     Lord have mercy

I, I, I, I can understand it, it made you feel like you wanna holler a little bit

     Made me feel like I wanna

Aahhhhhhh-ow! 

Yeah man, when I run into that situation, makes me wanna cry a little 

bit like this

Ooh-hoo!