Walking the Back Streets and Crying

The other day, a woman stopped me

She said, "Daddy, let me talk to you"

She said, "Now listen, I ain't begging

I'm just lonesome, and I'm blue"

Once I had a good man

But I didn't know how to act

By the time I learnt my lesson

My good man wouldn't take me back

She cried, "That was too much for me

That's why I walked the backstreet and cried

But it hurt me so bad, yeah

Yeah, that the man I misused said, 'Goodbye'

I said, "Rap on, baby"

I sent a friend to talk for me

And she said, "I did the best I could

I lied like a dog for you

I just couldn't do you no good"

That's why I hit the backstreet there

Just as drunk as I could be

The man I had misused

He passed and didn't look back at me

I said, "It's too much for me

That's why I walk the backstreet and cry

Oh, it hurt me so bad, it hurt me so bad

To hear the man I misused say, 'Goodbye'

I had the galls to call him

He said, "You low-down as you can be

And last time we had an argument

You know you called the police on me

They raid me out of my house, woman

While you stood there on and grinned

Now the police can't help you, little girl

'Cause they can't bring me in"

She said, "That was too much for me

That's why I walk on the backstreet and cry

Oh, it hurt me so bad, it hurt me so bad

To hear the man I misused say, 'Goodbye'

That's what she said

Yeah, come on

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