It Serves You Right To Suffer Lyrics

It serve you right to suffer
Serve you right to be alone
Serve you right to suffer
Serve you right to be alone
Because you're still livin'
In days done past and gone

Ev'rytime you see a woman
She make you think of yours
Yeah, ev'rytime you see a woman
She make you think of yours
And that's why, that's why, that's why
You can't keep from cryin'

Your doctor put you on
Milk, cream and alcohol
Your doctor put you on
Milk, cream and alcohol
He told you that's why
You can't sleep at night
From nerves, so bad
Yeah.

(guitar & instrumental)

Ev'ry time you see a woman
She makes you think of yours
Ev'rytime you see a woman
She make you think of your own
She treated you so bad
You just couldn't keep from cryin'

Umm, mmm, mmm
Your life never be the same
Umm, umm, mmm
You're still livin' in the days
Done gone past and gone
And memories
Yeah-yeah

You can't live on
In that way
In the past
Them days
Is gone

Gone
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Cover art for It Serves You Right To Suffer lyrics by John Lee Hooker

i thought it was it serves ME right to suffer

Cover art for It Serves You Right To Suffer lyrics by John Lee Hooker

Nope, definitely you.

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yeah JLK recorded this song multiple times for various labels and depending on which version you pick the lyrics and the "me"/"you" changes.

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Cover art for It Serves You Right To Suffer lyrics by John Lee Hooker

it IS me, and most of these lyrics are wrong anyway, you can tell just by listening to the song..

Cover art for It Serves You Right To Suffer lyrics by John Lee Hooker

If you have ever had the blues... you are familiar with speaking to yourself in the third person and explaining your circumstance and wrong doings in that perspective.