Marion Harris - I Ain't Got Nobody (1916) (By Spencer Williams & Roger A. Graham)

Marion Harris

There's a saying going all around this town and I begin to think it's true
It's awful hard to love some one, when they don't care for you
I once had a sweetheart , just as good as any in this town
But now I'm sad and lonely, he's gone and turned me down,

I ain't got nobody, nobody cares for me
That's why I'm sad and lonely
won't some sweet daddy take a chance with me?

I'll sing sweet songs, all the time
If you'll come and be my daddy mine
I ain't got nobody, nobody cares for me

Won't somebody go and find my man and bring him back to me
It's awful hard to be alone and without sympathy
Once I was a loving gal, as good as any in this town
But since my daddy left me, I'm a gal with her heart bowed down
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