Cab Calloway - 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.