Bad Luck Everywhere You Go

Brother James got money
Put it in a '29 ford
Told everybody he was gonna
Hit that open road
That was a mean old racer
V8, yessiree
Lord, brother James knocked every
Leaf off the tree

Some said it was bad luck
Some said it was a bad old way to go
Boys it's bad luck here
Bad luck everywhere you go

Sister Mattie's husband
He's workin' up the farm
Now she got another man
Put a mule in the barn
Telephone ring this mornin'
News was all around
Sometime last night
Mattie's husband come back in town

Some said it was bad luck
Some said it was a bad old way to go
Boys but it's bad luck here
Bad luck everywhere you go

I knew she didn't love me
Way she lay down cross the bed
Drinkin' that moonshine whiskey
Talkin' out her head
I was born for trouble
And bad luck never strayed
Everybody knows a sandfoot woman
Tote a razor blade

Some said it was bad luck
Some said it was a bad old way to go
But you know it's bad luck here
Bad luck everywhere you go