Tuff Luck Blues 3:01 Trk 7    (Maceo Merriweather)   Big Maceo   Big Maceo - vocals & piano   w/Tampa Red - guitar, Alfred Elkins - im. bass.   Recorded Friday Dec. 15, 1941   Chicago, ILL. RCA Studio A    Album: Bluebird Recordings Big Maceo 1941-1942   RCA #66715-2   Transcriber: Awcantor@aol.com               It's too bad   Things are going so tuff with me   It's too bad   Things are going so tuff with me   I'm blue and disgusted   As any poor man could be      I used to have a car   An it was painted white an black   I used to have a car   An he was painted white an black   I couldn't keep up the payments   An the man, he took it back      I used to smoke cigars   The very best in town   But bad luck an trouble   Is bound to tear me down      It's too bad   Things are going so tuff with me   I guess I go back to my plow   And start hollerin' (*whoa, haw, gee)      'Play 'em for me boy, play 'em for me'       (piano)       'You know my gal quit me'      'I'm sho' in hard luck'      'Get it and get it good, now'      'Yes, I know'      'I have so much trouble'      The women that I'm lovin'   Is followed me all around   I can tell by her action   She 'bout to put me down      It's too bad   Things are goin' so tuff with me   You have heard my story   Peoples, what'ch you think a me?      ~      *Whoa, haw, gee   Mules and horses: whoa=stop   Haw=go left, gee=go right.