Jeffrey Lee Pierce: "Bad Luck & Trouble" [written by written by Otis Hicks/Jerry West a.k.a. Lightnin' Slim/Jay Miller]
(from the "Ramblin Jeffrey Lee" album)


 

intro lick with guitar and harmonica, drums and bass coming in at the end:

 

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(*0h2p0h2... etc. describes a fast tremolo)

 

 

 E                        A                A7 A      A7    A  A7   A        A7              E
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-2-2-----------------2-----------------------------2------------------------------2-----------------------2-0h2p0h2p0h2p0h2-

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      Bad luck and trouble, babe,                          is tryin’ to      follow me
 

                                               A  A7 A      A7  A  A7  A       A7               E
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               bad luck and trouble, babe,                    is tryin’ to      follow me
 

                                        B7                               A  A7 A     A7  A                E
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                I     once had a woman,                              but I do      leave her be

 

 

E                                          A                A
She get up early in the morning, hit the road

                                             A                                 E

before she cooked my breakfast, even washed my clothes

                                     A                        A
she come home at midnight just erasing scent

                                                      A                        E

but I know she was around the corner with her other man

                                           B7   A                             E
look like bad luck and trouble, babe, is tryin’ to follow me

 


instrumental = 1. verse

 


She even took my money and bought her a telephone

so she could sit down and call her man at home
and then roll her eyes back at me like I don’t understand

to know that she’ll be talking with her other man
look like bad luck and trouble, babe, is tryin’ to follow me

 

 

end:     E7        D#7     D7         E           B7    E

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