Alberta Hunter - Downhearted Blues

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 the downhearted blues

Once I was crazy about a man, he mistreated me all the time

The next man I get he's got to promise to be mine, all mine

'Cause you mistreated me and you drove me from your door

You mistreated me and you drove me from your door

But the Good Book says you reap just what you sow

'Cause I'm trouble, just like I've had it all my days

'Cause I'm trouble, just like I've had it all my days

Sometimes I think trouble will follow me to my grave

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

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

There's my father, my brother, and the man that wrecked my life

Well it may be a week, and it may be a month or two

Well it may be a week, and it may be a month or two

All those days you turned from me, honey, it's comin' back home to you

I've got the world in a jug, and the stopper right there in my hand

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

You want me to quit it, papa, you've got to come under my command