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!
