Big Maceo Tuff Luck Blues Lyrics

Tuff Luck Blues Lyrics

Tuff Luck Blues     3:01   Trk 7             

(Maceo Merriweather)

Big Maceo

Big Maceo - vocals & piano

w/Tampa Red  - guitar,
Alfred Elkins - im. bass.

Recorded Friday Dec. 15, 1941

Chicago,
ILL. RCA Studio A  

Album: Bluebird Recordings Big Maceo 1941-1942

RCA #66715-2

Transcriber: Awcantor@aol.com









It's too bad

Things are going so tuff with me

It's too
bad

Things are going so tuff with me

I'm blue and disgusted

As any poor man could be



I used to have a car

An it was
painted white an black

I used to have a car

An he was painted white
an black

I couldn't keep up the payments

An the man, he took it
back



I used to smoke cigars

The very best in town

But
bad luck an trouble

Is bound to tear me down



It's too
bad

Things are going so tuff with me

I guess I go back to my
plow

And start hollerin' (*whoa, haw, gee)



'Play 'em for me
boy, play 'em for me' 



(piano) 



'You know my gal quit
me'



'I'm sho' in hard luck'



'Get it and get it good,
now'



'Yes, I know'



'I have so much trouble'



The women that I'm lovin'

Is followed me all around

I can
tell by her action

She 'bout to put me down



It's too bad

Things are goin' so tuff with me

You have heard my story

Peoples,
what'ch you think a me?



~



*Whoa, haw, gee

Mules
and horses: whoa=stop

Haw=go left, gee=go right.