Mistreating Child Abuse

Note: hyphen=word unsung

I sit up all the last night

I done sit up all the night befo'

I sit up all the last night

An I sit up all the night befo'

You know, I was drinkin'

Lotta bad whiskey

I declare, I never take another

Drink no mo'

Yes, you know my baby

Left me early this mo'nin

An she never did tell me

When she would be back

My baby left me early this mo'nin

An she didn't tell me

When she would be -

Seem like to me, I see'd her

She had all her clothes

Packed in her sack

Now, if you gon' let me down easy, baby

Baby, please don't come back fo' no mo'

If you gon' let me down easy, baby

Please don't come back fo' no -

But please don't let me down too easy

'Till you will have come back

An asked for some mo'

Now, if you don't believe I'm duckin'

Will you count the days that I'm gone?

Now, if you don't believe I'm duckin', baby

Will ya count the days I'm gone?

Because the woman that I love

I declare, she've got to be born

You can mistreat me here, now

But I declare, you can't when I go home

You can mistreat me here, baby

But I declare, you can't when I go -

Because I got somethin' there

I declare, will make you leave me alone.

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