Nellie McKay - Everything Happens to Me lyrics

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 through life
Just catchin' colds and missin' trains
Everything happens to me
I never miss a thing
I've had the measles and the mumps
And every time I play an ace
My partner always trumps
I guess I'm just a fool
Who never looks before she jumps
Everything happens to me

At first, i thought that 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
I sent an airmail special, too
Your answer was goodbye
There was even postage, too
I fell in love just once
And then it had to be with you
Everything happens to me