Down Hearted Blues - Bessie Smith, Paris Conservatoire Orchestra, Erich Kleiber

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.