Albert Collins But I Was Cool Lyrics

But I Was Cool Lyrics

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, ha

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:



Ooo shhhhiiiii
ooow ooow ooow

What? Oh what are you gonna do with me?

Ooo 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:



"Oow!
Please oooow ooow, 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!



Oooooow, ruff ruff,
rrr, rrr, rrr, rur, rur, rur

As they carried me away

I was
overheard to say,

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