i was born about eighteen years ago in a little wooden shack i was born about eighteen years ago on the wrong side of the tracks and i never knew my father and i never had a home well i don t know where i came from and i don t know where i m goin i was born to be unlucky from my shoulders to my shoes and i guess i m stuck with my unlucky blues when i was just a young boy i was raised on beans and trout and on my seventh birthday well my momma she threw me out they say i m good for nothin no one treats me kind i don t care cause pretty soon i m gonna leave this world behind i was born to be unlucky from my shoulders to my shoes and i guess i m stuck with my unlucky blues i jumped into the river to try to put myself away a man jumped in and saved me spoiled a perfect day he dragged me to the river s edge he said he knew i had a need then he pulled out a soggy bible and that man began to read well he told me things i did not know i m glad i did not die cause he told me god s my father and my real home is in the sky and i said harmonica and lead guitar speak he said i done a very foolish thing to try to drown myself and die and i told him i was glad he happened to be passing by he said god would forgive me so i repented of my sin then he said i must be baptized and he threw me in again awww i was born to be unlucky from my shoulders to my shoes i thought i must be stuck with these unlucky blues oh yeh lead guitar break my life has changed in many ways i m such a different man well i know now who my father is and i know just where i stand with one foot up in heaven and one foot on the ground i travel through this world of ours i try to spread god s word around i was born to be unlucky from my shoulders to my shoes but i came unstuck from my unlucky blues yea ow and maybe you can too alright and this is just the beginning