If It Wasn't For Bad Luck Lyrics - Ray Charles

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 

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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!