downhearted 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.

BESSIE SMITH