[Uh-Uh]
Wait a minute, Jimmy, look here
     I'm listenin'
As I was wakin' up this mornin'
     Well well
Oh Lord, you know I felt pretty good, Yes I did
I began to stretch and yawn
     What for Ray?
Just to see if I could
     I can dig it

All at once I got a funny feelin'
That something around here was goin on wrong
     Hmm
So you know what I did Jimmy?
     What?
I got up and I began to look all around for my baby
     Was that it?
That was it, you know the woman had packed up and gone
     Oh lord

That's why I say if everybody went to heaven
Hey-ey-ey, I believe I'd miss the call
But you see if it wasn't for bad luck,
Trying to tell you son if it wasn't for bad luck, now now
Oh, oh, I wouldn't have no luck at all
Would you believe I wouldn't have no luck at all

     Looka here Ray, you think your luck is bad?
     Listen ta what happen to me
Alright
     Now listen now
     Got a tip on a horse someone gave me, hey hey
Yeah
     Pawned my last suit to make the bet
No you didn't
     Yes I did
     Put every dime I had on him, ah
What?
     Listen, you know he ain't showed up yet

     Oh! Tell ya I got so disgusted now
Yeah
     Said I'll go back home and sleep some more
Now that seem like the right thing to do
     But by the time I got back to my room
     Are you listenin' Ray?
Yeah yeah, I'm payin' attention
     You know the landlord had padlocked my door
Why that dirty . . .

     Tell ya a slow horse and a fast woman
     Hey hey hey lord they sure did let me fall
     That's why I say ah
     If it wasn't for bad luck sugar now
     Hey if it wasn't for bad luck y'all
     Oh!  I wouldn't have no luck at all

     Oh Ray, listen, I wouldn't have no luck at all
Huh-Yep.  But wait a minute, you ain't heard nothin' yet
Let me tell you what happened
     Tell me about it

I decided I'd go out walkin'
     Say what?
Um-hm. And you know even that failed
     Now how can a walk fail, Ray?
Because some man snatched a woman's pocketbook way across town
     Say what?
Yeah, and uh guess who they put in jail?
     Do tell, do tell

Jimmy, I just can't understand it
     I know what you mean
I know there's got to be some kind of explanation
     There's got to be, there's got to be
Lord, lord, lord, lord I ain't done nothing wrong
So tell me why I'm doing two years probation
     Man I don't know, I got the same trouble

They got me having to walk a chump line 
     Say what?
Oh, with my, with my back up against a wall 
     That's tough, Ray 
That's why if it wasn't for bad luck sugar 
Oh I tell everybody if it wasn't for bad luck now now 
I believe, I believe I would have no luck at all 
I just would have no luck at all 
     Looka here Ray, let me tell you something 
Hm? 
     Now you know, you know about this here 
Yeah 
     You know I was sittin' home one evening, 
     Well I didn't have a thing to do 
Yeah, that's happened to me sometimes 
     So I thought I'd go out dancin', you know 
Yeah, yeah 
     And do a little of that boogaloo 
I, I kinda like that myself 
     Finally, I got myself a partner, now 
Yeah 
     But old Ray, wouldn't you know 
Mm-hm, somthing musta happened bad 
     Some man said, "You got my woman, boy" 
Uh oh 
     And he stood about seven foot four 
Oops! Oops! 
     As they walked away I stood there 
     Feeling kinda sad and kinda small 
     That's why I say If it wasn't for bad luck sugar 

[whoa, if it wasn't for bad luck, y'all now 
hey, hey, hey, we'd have no luck at all] 

    Hey now! 
Yeah, I say we would have no luck at all 
Jimmy, I want you to tell me about that 
seven foot four What did you do! 
     Well Ray, anytime a man is seven foot four and you 
     messin' with his woman, it's time for you to go 
Oh yeah? 
     Lord have mercy 
I, I, I, I can understand it, 
it made you feel like you want to holler a little bit 
     Made me feel like I want to Aahhhhhhh-ow! 
Yeah man, when I run into that situation, 
makes me want to cry a little bit like this Ooh-hoo!