Gee, but it's hard to love someone When that someone don't love you I'm so disgusted, heartbroken, 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 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 that trouble's going to follow me to my grave
I ain't never loved but three men in my life I ain't never loved but three men in my life My Father, my brother and the man that changed 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 coming 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 going to hold it until you didn't come under my command
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