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ray charles - if it wasn't for bad luck lyrics

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
p-wned 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 sn-tched 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!

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