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Learned The Hard Way
(1994) • (Click song title to get lyrics)


1. I Love My Baby
2. Learned The Hard Way
3. Let's Pack Our Bags
4. Je Me Souviens (I Remember Too)
5. Keep Your Hands Off Her
6. He's Not Good For Me
7. My Woman Is An Old Black Spider
8. Moanin' And Cryin'
9. Kindhearted Fool
10. Lonely Nights No More
11. The Wrong Guy
12. How Long Can A Man Be Poor
13. Got To Change Your Ways
14. Bullfrog Hop
15. Mean Old World

MEAN OLD WORLD/TONIGHT WITH A FOOL
(M.W. Jacobs, Arc Music, BMI)

MEAN OLD WORLD*
(Big Bill Broonzy/M.W. Jacobs, MCA publishing Co./Arc Music Corp., BMI) * This recording version is a combination of two songs by Big Bill Broonzy's and Little Walter (Marion Jacobs)

1. INSTRUMENTAL INTRO

2. IT'S A MEAN OLD WORLD
[TO] TRY LIVIN' BY YOURSELF [REPEAT]
IF YOU CAN'T GET THE ONE YOU'RE LOVIN‚
YOU GOT TO USE SOMEBODY ELSE

3. I'VE GOT THE BLUES
I‚M GONNA, I'M GONNA PACK MY THINGS AND GO [REPEAT]
BECAUSE I GUESS YOU DON'T WANT ME
I'M JUST AN UNLUCKY SO AND SO

4. SOMETIMES I WONDER HOW
CAN YOUR LOVE BE SO (DARN) COLD [REPEAT]
WELL I KNOW, YES I KNOW
YOU DON'T LOVE ME BABY
YOU'RE IN LOVE WITH MRS SO AND SO
[WHATEVER HER NAME IS]

5. SOLO

6. I WISH I HAD SOMEONE
JUST TO LOVE ME ALL THE TIME [REPEAT]
I WOULDN'T BE SO WORRIED
I WOULD HAVE PEACE OF MIND

7. YOU SAY THAT YOU DON'T LOVE ME
YOU KNOW THAT HURTS ME SO
NOW YOU'RE TALKIN‚ ABOUT LEAVING ME
AND YOU WON'T BE BACK NO MORE
I WISH I HAD SOMEBODY
JUST TO LOVE ME ALL THE TIME
I WOULDN'T BE SO WORRIED
I WOULD HAVE PEACE OF MIND
[YES I WOULD NOW ... YES I WOULD NOW ...]

8. IT‚S A MEAN, IT'S A MEAN OLD WORLD
[TO] TRY LIVIN' BY YOURSELF [REPEAT]
IF YOU CAN'T GET THE ONE YOU‚RE LOVIN‚
BREAK:
YOU GOT TO USE SOMEBODY ELSE - EXIT

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