Scufflin' have got so hard, seem like I can't even make a dime Scufflin' have got so hard, seem like I can't even make a dime I musta had the wrong woman, seem like gangsters on me all there now I never wants another woman that she don't do nothin' but hang around for be in a gang I never wants another woman, that she don't do nothin' but hang around for be in a gang She will all drive you to your weakness, she will keep you with a turned-down hand Life have got miserable, seem like no more happiness to be made Life have got miserable, seem like no more happiness to be made But life is really too short to be worried about some old no-good babe Good Book, don't it tell us, where there's a will there's a way Lord, the Good Book kindly tell us, where there's a will there's a way But it seem like to me the way it's jivin', now to me, more and more every day