Oh, there's a black cloud hanging over my head, down to my last buck.
Oh, with an old black cloud hanging over my head, there ain't no such thing as good luck.
Oh, the very first Saturday in every month, I go down to get me some pay.
Oh, when I ask my boss man about a job, this is what my boss man say.
He said, a black cloud hanging over my head, down to my last buck.
Oh, with an old black cloud hanging over my head, there ain't no such thing as good luck.
Well, I earn my living by the sweat of my brow, I work so hard every day.
Oh, with an old black cloud hanging over my head, down to my last buck.
Oh, with an old black cloud hanging over my head, to drive my dreams away.
And if it wasn't for the help of the one I love, to tell my troubles to.
There just ain't no telling what that old black cloud might drive this poor man to.
Oh, there's a black cloud hanging over my head, down to my last buck.
Oh, with an old black cloud hanging over my head, there ain't no such thing as good luck.
I'm gonna sit in the ground, I'm gonna throw me a tree.
Oh, this is what that black cloud done.
It sent all the locusts to eat up the tree.
I'm gonna cook my brains in the sun.
And one of these days when I'm laid away, I know that cloud can't wait.
It's gonna hover over me on judgment day, to keep me from the pearly gate.
Did you hear me singing now?
Black cloud hanging over my head.
Down to my last buck.
Oh, with an old black cloud hanging over my head.
There ain't no such thing as good luck.
I've seen a black cloud hanging over my head, down to my last buck.
Oh, with an old black cloud hanging over my head, there ain't no such thing as good luck.
I've seen a black cloud hanging over my head, down to my last buck.
is an old black song