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Ray Charles
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If It Wasn't For Bad Luck
Written:By:Ray Charles/Jimmy Lewis Vocal:Ray Charles/Jimmy Lewis
[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
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