But I Was Cool Lyrics - Don't Lose Your Cool - Albert Collins

I always live by the, golden rule 

Whatever happens, ha, don't blow your cool! 

You gotta have nerves of steel 

And never show folks how you, honestly feel 

I lived all my life this way, hah 

For example, take yesterday 

I breeze home happy bringin' her my pay 

Her note read, so long savvy, I haven't gone away! 

An' I threw myself down across our empty bed 

An' this is what I said 

Oh shit Oh Oh Oh 

What? Oh what are you gonna do with me? 

Oh wow uh 

But I was cool! 

So I "one for the roaded" at a all night bar 

I wound up so loaded, I tore up my car 

The judge threw the book at me, 

An' when I read, the sentence there, I said 

Ow! Please ow ow, please I got to know, I got to know 

What? what went wrong? 

I don't underst' I oh a, 

But I was cool! 

So I said she's the only one, that I have to pay 

And I found her an' pulled my gun, an' fired point blank 

The shot whistled right past that woman's head 

An' I killed my hound dog, dead! 

Ow, ruff ruff, r' r' r' r' r' r' 

As they carried me away 

I was overheard to say, 

"Be cool, be cool, stay cool, be cool!"