Jeffrey Lee Pierce: "Bad Luck & Trouble" [written by written by Otis Hicks/Jerry West a.k.a. Lightnin' Slim/Jay Miller]
(from the "Ramblin Jeffrey Lee" album)
intro lick with guitar and harmonica, drums and bass coming in at the end:
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(*0h2p0h2... etc. describes a fast tremolo)
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Bad luck and trouble, babe, is tryin’ to follow me
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bad luck and trouble, babe, is tryin’ to follow me
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I once had a woman, but I do leave her be
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She get up early in the morning, hit the road
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before she cooked my breakfast, even washed my clothes
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she come home at midnight just erasing scent
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but I know she was around the corner with her other man
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look like bad luck and trouble, babe, is tryin’ to follow me
instrumental = 1. verse
She even took my money and bought her a telephone
so she could sit down and
call her man at home
and then roll her eyes back at me like I don’t understand
to know that she’ll
be talking with her other man
look like bad luck and trouble, babe, is tryin’ to follow me
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