Your Good Fortune Lyrics - Your Good Fortune - Mavis Staples

Why 

Did you spend 

Your good fortune 

On me 

Why 

Did you spend 

Your good fortune 

On me 

Did you leave me to suffer 

Just to shuffle and breathe 

Did you pick through the letters 

And just settle on me 

Am I just a plaything 

(I just a plaything) 

For the wind like a leaf 

(Wind like a leaf) 

Or did you leave me exactly 

(Leave me exactly) 

Where I need to be 

(I need to be) 

Tell me why 

Did you spend 

Your good fortune 

On me 

Why 

Did you spend 

Your good fortune 

On me 

I can tell you of sorrow 

(tell you of sorrow) 

Of losing, of pain 

(losing, of pain) 

I can cry through the levee 

(cry through the levee) 

It would wash you away 

(wash you away) 

I could give you one reason 

(give you a reason) 

Two reasons or three 

(reason or three) 

I can tell you 'bout heartache 

(tell you 'bout heartache) 

No leanness and grieve 

(No leanness have greed) 

So why 

Did you spend 

Your good fortune 

On me 

Oh, why 

Did you spend 

Your good fortune 

On me 

I can tell you a story 

Tell it simple and plain 

Tell you life is a candle 

It figures that I'm a flame 

So if I give you one reason 

(give you a reason) 

For me to say what I'm sayin' 

(say what I'm saying) 

I'll say that you are the answer 

(you are the answer) 

To my question every day 

(every day) 

Saying why 

Did you spend 

Your good fortune 

On me 

Tell me why 

Did you spend 

Your great fortune 

On me 

Why 

Did you spend 

Your greatest fortune 

On me 

Oh, why 

Did you spend 

Your greatest fortune 

On me 

On me 

On 

(why) 

On me 

(why) 

Ooh 

(why) 

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