Careless Love- Josh White (SC) 1944 REC
[From: Classic Blues, Smithsonian/Folkways SFW 40134, CD (2003), trk# 18 [1944]. Standard folk stanzas.
R. Matteson 2017]
Careless Love- Sung by Josh White, originally from South Carolina, recorded in 1944, NYC.
[Solo]
Well it's love, oh love, what careless love
Now it love, love oh love, what careless love
It's caused me to weep and it's caused me to moan,
And it's caused me to lose my happy home.
Oh sorrow, sorrow to my heart,
Well it's sorrow, sorrow, sorrow to my heart,
Lord it's sorrow, sorrow I mean sorrow to my heart,
When me and my true love have to part.
[solo]
I cried last night and the night before,
Cried last night and the night before,
Lord I cried last night and I cried the night before,
Going to cry tonight and I'll cry no more.