The song Mistreating Child Abuse is performed by Skip James in the album named Vanguard Sessions: Blues From The Delta in the year 1998 .
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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Skip James - Vanguard Sessions: Blues From The Delta
- Little Cow, Little Calf Blues
- Mistreating Child Abuse
- Sick Bed Blues
- Catfish Blues
- Lorenzo Blues
- Careless Blues
- Hard Time Killing Floor Blues
- Crow Jane
- Center Blues
- How Long Blues
- Cypress Grove
- Look Down The Road
- She's All The World To Me
- Everybody Leaving Here
- Good Road Camp Blues