Cab Calloway Down-hearted Blues Lyrics

Down-hearted Blues Lyrics

Gee, but it's hard to love someone when that someone don't love you! 

I'm so disgusted, heart-broken, too; I've got those down-hearted blues; 

Once I was crazy 'bout a man; he mistreated me all the time, 

The next man I get has got to promise me to be mine, all mine! 



Trouble, trouble, I've had it all my days, 

Trouble, trouble, I've had it all my days; 

It seems like trouble going to follow me to my grave. 



I ain't never loved but three mens in my life; 

I ain't never loved but three men in my life: 

My father, my brother, the man that wrecked my life. 



It may be a week, it may be a month or two, 

It may be a week, it may be a month or two, 

But the day you quit me, honey, it's comin' home to you. 



I got the world in a jug, the stopper's in my hand, 

I got the world in a jug, the stopper's in my hand, 

I'm gonna hold it until you meet some of my demands. 





Another version

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Gee, but it's hard to love someone 

When that someone don't love you; 

I'm so disgusted, heart-broken, too 

I've got those down-hearted blues. 



I was crazy 'bout a gal, 

She mistreated me all the time, 

Next gal I get, she's got to promise to 

Be mine, all mine. 



'Cause she mistreated me, 

And she drove me from her door; 

Yes, she mistreated me, 

She drove me from her door, 

But the Good Book says, 

She'll reap just what she'll sow. 



I ain't never loved but three women in all my life, 

I never loved but three women in all my life, 

That was my mother, my sister, and the gal that wrecked my life. 



[Heavily scatted] 

All the dirt you done to me 

Is bound to come back to you.