Single Mothers - Justin Townes Earle

Single mother

Middle daughter

Blames her father

Cause he never bothered

And you be hard pressed to find

Someone to tell her she’s wrong

Single mother, just gotta move on

Absent father

Oh, never offers

Even a dollar

He doesn’t seem to be bothered

By the fact that he’s forfeit his rights

To his own now

Absent father, he’s long gone

Oh, you betta watch what you say

And oh, you betta what what you do

Cause you know every time

Oh that you tell a lie

Well you know someone could be

Watching you, oh no

Their little eyes

They don’t see the little lines

Tween wrong and right

Tween day and night

You get em started stealing

They’ll grow up bitter and cold

Single mother, absent father

Broken home