GOOD FOR NOTHING BLUES
(Kris Kristofferson)

Bobby Bare - 1979



 
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 suckin' 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 nothin' 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 suckin' sympathy
Baby, good for nothing's good enough for me

(Guitar Solo)

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 hurtin' place 
Where your heart used to be
Darlin' 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 suckin' sympathy
Baby, good for nothing's good enough for me

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


(Transcribed by Mel Priddle - October 2010)