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Down Hearted Blues - Bessie Smith - 1922
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#1 song of 1922

Down Hearted Blues - Bessie Smith - YouTube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=go6TiLIeVZA . Bessie Smith - Down Hearted Blues - Lyrics http://www.eugeneandtex.com/songs/lyrics/DownHeartedBlues-BessieSmith-1922.htm 1922 - Bessie Smith - Down Hearted Blues

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!

Trouble, trouble, I've had it all my days,
Trouble, trouble, I've had it all my days;
It seems like trouble going to follow me to my grave.

I ain't never loved but three mens in my life;
I ain't never loved but three men in my life:
My father, my brother, the man that wrecked 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 comin' 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 gonna hold it until you
meet some of my demands!