Down-Hearted Blues lyrics

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 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 me to be mine, all mine!

'Cause she mistreated me,

And she drove me from her door;

Yes, she mistreated me,

She drove me from her door,

But the Good Book says,

She'll reap just what she'll sow.

I ain't never loved but three women in all my life,

I never loved but three women in all my life,

That was my mother, my sister, and the gal that wrecked my life.

[Heavily scatted]

All the dirt you done to me

Is bound to come back to you.

• Artist:Cab Calloway
• Album:1931 - 1932 (1990)