DOWN AND OUT BLUES
As sung by Scrapper Blackwell, 1928, as heard on "Scrapper Blackwell, Vol. 1 (1928-1932)" (Document Records, BDCD-6029)

Nobody knows you when I'm down and out. (2x)
If I ask them for a favor, they don't know what it's all about.

When I's down and in trouble, ev'rybody forsaken me. (2x)
Nobody knows the trouble that I did see.

When you down and out, you ain't got a friend in town. (2x)
And when I get money, they begin to come around.

Yeah, if you show ... have plenty money, too. (2x)
Someday I'll have money, and be up to date like you.

The sun's gonna shine in my back door someday. (2x)
I'm down and out now, but I won't be down and out always.