Careless Love- Lillian Short (MO) 1942 Randolph C
[From Vance Randolph, Ozark Folksong, vol. 4, 1948, pp. 306-308.
R. Matteson 2017]
C. CARELESS LOVE - sung by Mrs. Lillian Short, Galena, MO, 1942.
Love, oh love, oh careless love (2 times)
It's love, oh love, oh careless love,
You see what love has done for me.
It's a shame we ever met (3 times)
For those good times we'll never forget.
Now my money's spent and gone (3 times)
You pass my door a-singing a song.
Oh I love my mamma and my papa too (3 times)
But I'd leave them both and go with you.
Oh I cried last night and the night before (3 times)
Going to cry tonight, then I'll cry no more.
Ain't this enough to break my heart, (3 times)
To see my man with another sweetheart?
Oh it's done and broke this heart of mine, (3 times0
And it'll break that heart of yours sometime.