Bad Luck Blues

 C    G7  C

[Verse 1]
           C          C       
I wanna go home and I ain't got 
             C
sufficient clothes
           C
Doggone my bad luck soul
F                   F      
Wanna go home and I ain't got 
              C
sufficient clothes
C                  C
I mean sufficient, talking about 
clothes
        G7                   C    
Well, I wanna go home, but I ain't
                C       C   C
 got sufficient clothes

[Verse 2]
         C           C            
I bet my money and I lost it, 
       C
Lord, it's so
           C
Doggone my bad luck soul
F    F                 C
Mm,  lost it, ain't it so?
C               C
 I mean lost it, speakin' about 
dough, now
     G7              
I'll never bet on the 
 C                   C    C  C
deuce-trey-queen no more

[Verse 3]
     C                 C
"Mama, I can't gamble". "Son, why 
don't you quit cryin'?"
Continues after the ad
C           C
Doggone my bad luck soul
F    F                  C
Mmm, why don't you quit cryin'?
C                   C
Why don't you quit, I mean cryin'?
     G7                       
That joker stole off with that 
 C                    C       C   C
long-haired brown of mine

[Verse 4]
                     C         
Sugar, you catch the Katy, I'll 
       C                 C
catch that San diffrent Fe
           C
Doggone my bad luck soul
       F                       F  
Sugar, you catch that Katy and 
                   C
I'll catch that Santa Fe
C                 C
I mean the Santy, speakin' about Fe
         G7                        
When you get in Denver, pretty 
  C               C    C  C
mama, look around for me

[Verse 5]
            C            C        
The woman I love's 'bout five feet
          C
 from the ground
           C
Doggone my bad luck soul
 F   F                  C
Hey, five feet from the ground
C                   C
 Five feet from the, I mean ground
        G7                 C      
She's a tailor-made woman, she 
              C     C   C
ain't no hand-me-down

[Verse 6]
        C                C        
I ain't seen my sugar in three 
          C
long weeks today
           C
Doggone my bad luck soul
        F             F           
I ain't seen my sugar, three long 
        C
weeks today
C                     C
 Three long weeks to, I mean day, 
but
     G7                       C
It's been so long, seems like my 
                C      C   C
heart's goin' break

[Verse 7]
               C                
I'm gonna run 'cross town, catch 
      C                C
that southbound Santa Fe
           C
Doggone my bad luck soul
F   F                C
Mm, Lord, that Santy Fe
C                 C
I mean the Santy, speakin' about Fe
   G7                         
Be on my way to what they call 
 C             C   C  C  C C7/Bb
lovin' Tennessee