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Mean Old World

by Otis Rush

on Cold Day in Hell (1992), All Your Love I Miss Loving - Live At The Wise Fools Pub, Chicago (2006), So Many Roads: Live in Concert (1995)

Yes this is a mean old world
To try and live it by yourself
This is a mean old world
To try and live it by yourself
You can't get the one you love
And you have to go along with somebody else

Yes I hate to admit, woman
What a fool I used to be
Yes I hate to admit, woman
What a fool I used to be
The way I used to love you, darling
Honey, how bad you treated me

I said this is a mean old world
To try and live it by yourself
This is a mean old world
To try and live it by yourself
Can't get the one you love
Have to give it to somebody else