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!