Bobby Bare
"Good For Nothing Blues" lyrics

Good For Nothing Blues

I wash my face in funky water
Pick my teeth with a rusty spoke
Hide your dishes and your daughters
Anything that might get broke
I prefer your condemnation
To your sucking sympathy
Baby good for nothing's good enough for me

I was born without a daddy
And the gutter was my home
And when momma died the only thing
She left me was alone
There ain't nothing in the world
That I ain't fool enough to try
I'm hard to hurt and too damn mean to die

I wash my face in funky water
Pick my teeth with a rusty spoke
Hide your dishes and your daughters
Anything that might get broke
I prefer your condemnation
To your sucking sympathy
Baby good for nothing's good enough for me

Yeah I don't need nobody girl
I get by by myself
And you sure don't need me more
Than you don't need nobody else
Cause unless you need a hurting place
Where your heart used to be
Darling you don't want no part of me

I wash my face in funky water
Pick my teeth with a rusty spoke
Hide your dishes and your daughters
Anything that might get broke
I prefer your condemnation
To your sucking sympathy
Baby good for nothing's good enough for me

I prefer your condemnation
To your sucking sympathy
Baby good for nothing's good enough for me