Testi If It Wasn't for Bad Luck - Ray Charles

If It Wasn't for Bad Luck

Wait a minute, Jimmy, look here\nI’m listenin'\nAs I was wakin' up this mornin'\nWell well\nOh Lord, you know I felt pretty good, Yes I did\nI began to stretch and yawn\nWhat for Ray?\nJust to see if I could\nI can dig it All at once I got a funny feelin'\nThat something around here was goin on wrong\nHmm\nSo you know what I did Jimmy?\nWhat?\nI got up and I began to look all around for my baby\nWas that it?\nThat was it, you know the woman had packed up and gone\nOh lord\nThat’s why I say if everybody went to heaven\nHey-ey-ey, I believe I’d miss the call\nBut you see if it wasn’t for bad luck,\nTrying to tell you son if it wasn’t for bad luck, now now\nOh, oh, I wouldn’t have no luck at all\nWould you believe I wouldn’t have no luck at all\nLooka here Ray, you think your luck is bad?\nListen ta what happen to me Alright\nNow listen now\nGot a tip on a horse someone gave me, hey hey\nYeah\nPawned my last suit to make the bet\nNo you didn’t\nYes I did\nPut every dime I had on him, ah What?\nListen, you know he ain’t showed up yet\nOh! Tell ya I got so disgusted now\nYeah\nSaid I’ll go back home and sleep some more\nNow that seem like the right thing to do But by the time I got back to my room\nAre you listenin' Ray?\nYeah yeah, I’m payin' attention\nYou know the landlord had padlocked my door\nWhy that dirty…\nTell ya a slow horse and a fast woman\nHey hey hey lord they sure did let me fall\nThat’s why I say ah If it wasn’t for bad luck sugar now\nHey if it wasn’t for bad luck y’all\nOh! I wouldn’t have no luck at all\nOh Ray, listen, I wouldn’t have no luck at all\nHuh-Yep. But wait a minute, you ain’t heard nothin' yet\nLet me tell you what happened\nTell me about it I decided I’d go out walkin'\nSay what?\nUm-hm. And you know even that failed\nNow how can a walk fail, Ray?\nBecause some man snatched a woman’s pocketbook way across town\nSay what?\nYeah, and uh guess who they put in jail?\nDo tell, do tell\nJimmy, I just can’t understand it I know what you mean\nI know there’s got to be some kind of explanation\nThere’s got to be, there’s got to be Lord, lord, lord, lord I ain’t done nothing wrong\nSo tell me why I’m doing two years probation\nMan I don’t know, I got the same trouble\nThey got me having to walk a chump line\nSay what?\nOh, with my, with my back up against a wall\nThat’s tough, Ray\nThat’s why if it wasn’t for bad luck sugar\nOh I tell everybody if it wasn’t for bad luck now now\nI believe, I believe I would have no luck at all\nI just wouldn’t have no luck at all\nLooka here Ray, let me tell you something\nNow you know, you know about this here\nYeah\nYou know I was sittin' home one evening,\nWell\nI didn’t have a thing to do Yeah, that’s happened to me sometimes\nSo I thought I’d go out dancin', you know\nYeah, yeah\nAnd do a little of that boogaloo\nI, I kinda like that myself\nFinally, I got myself a partner, now\nYeah\nBut old Ray, wouldn’t you know\nMm-hm, somthing musta happened bad\nSome man said, «You got my woman, boy»\nUh oh And he stood about seven foot four\nOops! Oops!\nAs they walked away I stood there\nFeeling kinda sad and kinda small\nThat’s why I say\nIf it wasn’t for bad luck sugar\n[Whoa, if it wasn’t for bad luck, y’all now\nHey, hey, hey, we’d have no luck at all]\nHey now\nYeah, I say we would have no luck at all\nJimmy, I want you to tell me about that seven foot four\nWhat did you do!\nWell Ray, anytime a man is seven foot four\nAnd you messin' with his woman, it’s time for you to go Oh yeah?\nLord have mercy\nI, I, I, I can understand it, it made you feel like you wanna holler a little\nbit\nMade me feel like I wanna\nAahhhhhhh-ow!\nYeah man, when I run into that situation, makes me wanna cry a little\nBit like this\nOoh-hoo!