"I'm Just a Lucky So-and-So" is a jazz song from 1945, with music by Duke Ellington and lyrics by Mack David. It is a jazz standard. Duke Ellington and His Orchestra recorded it on 26 November 1945 in New York, with a vocal refrain by Al Hibbler. RCA Victor released the recording as a single, coupled with "The Wonder of You". Johnny Hodges and Lawrence Brown are the featured soloists. The recording runs 3:13.
Ella Fitzgerald recorded the song for Decca in 1946 and later performed it at Carnegie Hall in 1949 and on her 1958 album Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Duke Ellington Songbook. Other notable recordings include those by Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis and Shirley Scott (Prestige, 1958), Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington (Roulette, 1961), Wes Montgomery (1961), Sarah Vaughan (1979), Mose Allison (1982) and Diana Krall (1993). The 2016 picture book Just a Lucky So and So: The Story of Louis Armstrong took its title from the song.
