Everything Happens To Me

Black cats creep across my path until I’m almost mad;

I must have roused the devil’s wrath

‘Cause all my luck is bad.

I make a date for golf, and you can bet your life it rains;

I try to give a party, and the guy upstairs complains.

I guess I’ll go thru life just catching colds and missing trains —

Ev’rything happens to me.

I never miss a thing — I’ve had the measles and the mumps,

And ev’rytime I play an ace, my partner always trumps.

I guess I’m just a fool who never looks before he jumps —

Ev’rything happens to me.

At first my heart thought you could break this jinx for me,

That love would turn the trick to end despair;

But now I just can’t fool this head that thinks for me —

I’ve mortgaged all my castles in the air

I’ve telegraphed and phoned, and sent an airmail special, too;

Your answer was “Good bye” and there was even postage due.

I fell in love just once, and then it had to be with you —

Ev’rything happens to me,

Ev’rything happens to me.