What's on your worried mind?
You keep your poor man worried and bothered all the time.
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Lawd, Lawdy, Lawd, Lawd, Lawd, Lawd
I'm a poor old boy been treated just like a dog
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Got a new way, baby, of spelling Memphis, Tennessee
Double m, double e, double t, double xyz
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Baby, baby, what makes you mistreat me so?
I've done all that a poor boy could do
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I helped you, baby, when your kinfolks turned you down
Now you're loving someone else, babe, and you done left this town
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Looky-here, baby, what more you want me to do
I've sacrificed my mother just to get along, 'long with you
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Ever lay down laughing and wake up hollering and crying?
And you think about the woman you treated so nice and kind
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When you've got money your friends will hear your plea
When you ain't got no money, you'll have to come home to me
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Take my woman, I won't get mad with you
'Cause she three times seven and she knows what she want to do
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Woke up this morning, I was half-most dead
I was borne down with a low and ache-aching head
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Baby, baby, won't you forgive me please?
You're the only woman to give my poor, poor heart ease