Don't tell me hard luck stories   And I won't tell you mine   Don't tell me hard luck stories   And I won't tell you mine.      Every time you're feelin' fine   Got another good one on the line   It slips away,   You feel it slip away, slip away.      I don't want no more from you   Won't do what you want me to   Turn me loose   Come on turn me loose, turn me loose.      Every time I'm feelin' good   The phone rings and I knock on wood   Hoping that it won't be you   Calling like you always do.      All you ever seem to say is   How much bad luck came your way   You won't try to start again   You just count on your old friends.      Don't tell me hard luck stories   And I won't tell you mine   Don't tell me hard luck stories   And I won't tell you mine.      Now you call up every day   Got no money no place to stay   That girl made a mess of you   You got what was comin' too.      Build her up and let her down   Tastin' everythin' in town   Treat her right, you never   Treat her right, treat her right.      Now she's gone and you're alone   Bite your fingers to the bone   Slip away,   You feel it slip away, slip away.      You don't know what's goin' on   How you lost it, what went wrong   What ever happened to   The love that you once knew.      Don't tell me hard luck stories   And I won't tell you mine   Don't tell me hard luck stories   And I won't tell you mine.