"If I Lose" lyrics - LOUDON WAINWRIGHT III
If I lose let me lose, I don't care how much I lose
If I lose a hundred dollars while I'm tryin' to win a dime
For my baby, she keeps money all the time
I can't walk neither can I talk
Just gettin' back from the state of old New York
One mornin' before day
Flossie, oh, Flossie, now what is the matter?
Walked all the way from old Cincinnati
One mornin' before day
If I lose let me lose and I don't care how much I lose
If I lose a hundred dollars while I'm tryin' to win a dime
For my baby, she keeps money all the time
The blood was a-runnin', I was runnin' too
To give my feet some exercise, I had nothin' else to do
One mornin' before day
Yeah, the peas was so greasy, the meat was so fat
The boys was fightin' the Spaniards while I was fightin' that
One mornin' just before day
If I lose let me lose, I don't care how much I lose
If I lose a hundred dollars while I'm tryin' to win a dime
For my baby, she keeps money all the time
You ought to seen them boats, comin' round the bend
Everyone was loaded down with American men
One mornin' just before day
If I lose let me lose, I don't care how much I lose
If I lose a hundred dollars while I'm tryin' to win a dime
For my baby, she keeps money all the time
High Wide & Handsome: The Charlie Poole Project (2009)
- High Wide & Handsome
- Took My Gal Out Walkin'
- I'm The Man Who Rode The Mule Around The World
- My Mother & My Sweetheart
- Bill Mason's Bride
- Goodbye Booze
- Old Ballyhoo
- Little Waterloo
- I'm Glad I'm Married
- Mother's Last Farewell Kiss
- Acres Of Diamonds
- Way Up In New York City
- If I Lose
- The Great Reaping Day
- Where The Whippoorwill Is Whispering Goodnight
- The Man In The Moon
- The Deal
- No Knees
- Moving Day
- Old And Only In The Way
- Ragtime Annie
- Sweet Sunny South
- The Letter That Never Came
- Awful Hungry Hash House
- Rowena
- Didn't He Ramble
- Ramblin' Blues
- Charlie's Last Song
- Beautiful
- High Wide & Handsome (Reprise)