Song information On this page you can read the lyrics of the song Careless Love , by - Skip James. Song from the album Blues From The Delta, in the genre БлюзRelease date: 31.12.2005
Record label: Vanguard
Song language: English
Careless Love |
| Careless Love 4:00 Trk 10 |
| Nehemiah Curtis 'Skip' James |
| Skip James — vocal, guitar and piano |
| From Vanguard 'Devil Got My Woman' album 1968 |
| Vanguard Records CD 96 517−2 1998 |
| Note: hyphen=word unsung |
| Oh love, ooh love |
| Oh, careless love |
| Yes, oh love, oh love |
| Oh, careless love |
| Oh love oh, oh love |
| Oh love, oh, careless — |
| How can’t you see |
| What careless love, have done? |
| And it have caused me to weep |
| And to — |
| It done caused me to weep |
| And to moan |
| It done caused me to weep |
| An it caused me to moan |
| You know that love done caused |
| Me to leave my happy home |
| Oh love’ll lie |
| Oh love, just |
| Oh love, oh Oh, love’ll die |
| Ooh, love |
| Oh love, oh careless — |
| Now you can see me What a careless love have — |
| My mother, she told me When I was a child |
| My mother, told me When I was a child |
| My mother, she told me She told me When I was a child |
| 'These old, battleaxe women |
| Son, gon' run you wild' |
| Then I said, 'That's the reason' |
| Oh careless love' |
| Oh, love |
| Oh love |
| Oh, careless love |
| Oh, love’ll lie |
| Oh love, oh love |
| Oh careless — |
| Yeah you, can’t you see |
| What it have done? |
| Yes, my mama |
| She used to kneel an pray |
| Oh, my mama |
| She used to kneel an she’d pray |
| An I b’lieve I heard her say |
| 'Oh Lord, will you see my child, today |
| And you see what this careless love |
| Done causin?' |
| And you can just see, now |
| What a careless love have done |
| Now, you can just see |
| What careless love have done |
| An you now, you can s- |
| You can |
| You can just see |
| What careless love have done |
| An you know it done |
| 'Caused me to do a lot of things wrong |
| An that caused me to Leave my happy home. |