Bluegrass Messengers

Careless Love- Kack and Sass Hathaway (NC) 1933 Warner

[From Frank Warner, Traditional American Folk Songs, 1983.

R. Matteson 2017]

 Careless Love- sung by Kack and Sass Hathaway of Nag's Head, NC in 1933. Collected by Frank Warner.

Love, O love, O careless love,
Love, O love, O careless love,
Love, O love, O careless love,
See what careless love has done.

When I wore my apron low, (3x)
You was always a-hangin' round my door.

Now my apron strings won't pin, (3x)
You pass my door but won't come in.

I wonder what my mother will say (3x)
When I come home in a family way.

She'll hang her head and bite her tongue, (3x)
Cause she done the same thing when she was young.