Ain't it hard to be lonesome When you're sleepin' all by yo'self? Ain't it hard to be lonesome When you're sleepin' all by yo'self? Now, and the one that you lovin' Has done gotten in touch wit' somebody else I love my, baby An I tell the world I do Lord, I love my baby And I tell the world I do Now, mama some a these days I hope she come to love me, too 'Play it a while' Yeah! Yeah! Yea-ah! I don't want none-a-these funny women If they don't know how to rob an steal I don't want none-a-these funny women If they don't know how to rob an steal 'What'd you gonna do?' You work yo'self to death In some po' farmer's field What you want wit' a woman, now-now An she don't no yes from no? Yeah! What you want wit' a woman, woo-ooo She don't know yes from no? An what you want, wit' One of them good lookin' women? An she don't know gee from haw? Yeah! Yeah!