Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out - Scrapper Blackwell

Once I lived the life of a millionaire

Spending my money’n I did not care care

Carrying my friends out for a good time

Buyin' bootleg liquor, champagne and wine

Lord but I got busted and I fell so low

Didn’t have no money and nowhere to go

This is the truth, Lord without a doubt

Nobody wants you when you’re down, I mean

Nobody wants you when you’re down

Lord the other day I asked a man for my rent

He told me, boy, the money he had spent

But I tried my best to try one or two

That’s everything that I could do

Lord, nobody let me have one lousey dime

I now get worried now all the time

But I’m gon' tell you this is the truth, Lord without a doubt

Nobody wants you when you’re down

Nobody wants you when you’re down

Lord, if I could get my hands on a dollar again

I would hold it till that eagle grins

I would try just for one little

Nobody knows me when I’m down and out

Lord, I tried for another day

To make troubles in my own way

But I’m gon' tell you the truth, Lord without a doubt

Nobody knows me when you’re down, I mean

Nobody knows me when you’re down