BORN TO LOSE
(Ted Daffan)
TED DAFFAN'S TEXANS (1943)

Born to lose, I've lived my life in vain
Every dream has only brought me pain
All my life I've always been so blue
Born to lose, and now I'm losing you

Born to lose, it seems so hard to bear
How I long to always have you near
You've grown tired and now you say we're through
Born to lose, and now I'm losing you

Born to lose, my every hope is gone
It's so hard to face an empty dawn
You were all the happiness I knew
Born to lose, and now I'm losing you

There's no use to dream of happiness
All I see is only loneliness
All my life, I've always been so blue
Born to lose, and now I'm losing you

Also recorded by: Ernest Tubb, Hank Snow, Don Gibson, Ray Charles, Johnny Cash, Sonny Deckelman, Bobby Goldsboro, Pete Fountain, Tennessee Ernie Ford, Everly Brothers, Jean Sheppard, Ray Price, George Jones, Pattie Page, Slim Whitman, Willie Nelson, Ella Fitzgerald, Jerry Lee Lewis, Boots Randolph, Eddy Arnold, Conway Twitty, Johnny Rodriguez, Savage kalman & The Explosion Rockets, Elton John and Leonard Cohen