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Weepin' Mama Blues
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My mama never had nothing
That she could call her own
When I was three my daddy left me
And my mother all alone
I had to quit school and get a job
So I could pay my way
I broke my back in cotton field
For 15 cents a day
But don't cry mama
Don't you cry
Oh mama don't you cry
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We made it through till '60
When Vietnam broke out
My brother got killed and that gave
My mama some more to cry about
They sent us a wire and said
That he'd been killed in an attack
He helped a friend to get on his feet
And they shot him in the back
But don't cry mama
Don't you cry
Oh mama don't you cry
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We made it through our trouble
We made it through the war
But mother's heart was so weak
And she just couldn't take any more
I told her not to worry
That we always had survived
But in the winter of '69
She just took sick and died
And I cried for mama everyday
You know I cried
Woah, I cried for my mama, yeah
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