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John Lee Hooker - Serves Me Right To Suffer

It Serve You Right to Suffer (later retitled "It Serves You Right To Suffer" for reissue) is an album by blues singer, songwriter, and guitarist John Lee Hooker, released on the Impulse Records label in early 1966 (catalogue no. 9103).

It was part of the short-lived Impulse folk music division, with the slogan adapted from their jazz promotion, "the new wave of folk is on Impulse!".

Signed to Impulse's parent label ABC Records, this is the only album Hooker made for the jazz label.

Producer Bob Thiele partnered Hooker with session musicians all possessing jazz pedigree, presenting a unique setting for his music. The released songs are a mix of new compositions and re-working of ones Hooker had previously recorded, and includes a cover of the Barrett Strong 1959 Motown hit "Money (That's What I Want)."

The album was reissued for compact disc by MCA Records on July 27, 1999.

The lyrics:

It serves me right to suffer

Serves me right to be alone

It serves me right to suffer, suffer

Serves me right to be alone, alone

Because the life I'm living

I'm living in memories gone by

Now watch this now

Every time I see another woman

She makes me think of mine,

Think of mine

She makes me think of mine,

Think of mine

And that's why when I see another woman

Folks, I just can't keep from trying,

Keep from trying

It serves me right to suffer

Serves me right to be alone

Serves me right to be alone

Because I'm trying to live my life

The days of memories gone by

Now I want you to pick upon this

These lyrics is something else

Let's dig this

My doctor put me on

Milk, cream, and alcohol, alcohol

My doctor wrote me a discription

For milk, cream and alcohol

My nerve was so bad

I couldn't rest

I couldn't sleep all at the night

And that's why he placed me on

Milk, cream, and alcohol

He placed me on

Milk, cream and alcohol

Even now

I can't lay down and rest at night

Milk, cream, and alcohol