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.