Playing By Heart movie - Everything Happens to Me lyrics

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Song by The Charlie Haden Quartet West with Chet Baker<br /><br>

I make a date for golf and you can bet your life it rains<br>

I try to throw a party and the guy upstairs complains<br>

I guess I'll go through life just catching colds and missing trains<br>

Everything happens to me<br>

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I never miss a thing, I've had the measles and the mumps<br>

And every time I play an ace<br>

My partner always trumps<br>

I guess I'm just a fool who never looks before he jumps<br>

Everything happens to me<br>

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At first I thought that you could break this jinx for me<br>

That love would turn the trick to end despair<br>

Now I just can't fool this this head that thinks for me<br>

I've mortgaged all my castles in the air<br>

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I've telegraphed and phoned and sent an airmail special too<br>

Your answer was goodbye and there was even postage due<br>

I fell in love just once - it had to be with you<br>

Everything happens to me.<br>

[piano]<br>

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[scat singing]<br>

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I've telegraphed and phoned and sent an airmail special too<br>

Your answer was goodbye and there was even postage due<br>

I fell in love just once and then it had to be with you<br>

Everything happens to me<br>

The verse to this tune is almost never sung..and quite pretty. Here it is..<br>

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Black cats creep across<br>

My path until I'm almost mad<br>

I must have 'roused the devils's wrath<br>

'Cause all my luck is bad<br>

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