Careless Love - Skip James

Careless Love 4:00 Trk 10

Nehemiah Curtis 'Skip' James

Skip James — vocal, guitar and piano

From Vanguard 'Devil Got My Woman' album 1968

Vanguard Records CD 96 517−2 1998

Note: hyphen=word unsung

Oh love, ooh love

Oh, careless love

Yes, oh love, oh love

Oh, careless love

Oh love oh, oh love

Oh love, oh, careless —

How can’t you see

What careless love, have done?

And it have caused me to weep

And to —

It done caused me to weep

And to moan

It done caused me to weep

An it caused me to moan

You know that love done caused

Me to leave my happy home

Oh love’ll lie

Oh love, just

Oh love, oh Oh, love’ll die

Ooh, love

Oh love, oh careless —

Now you can see me What a careless love have —

My mother, she told me When I was a child

My mother, told me When I was a child

My mother, she told me She told me When I was a child

'These old, battleaxe women

Son, gon' run you wild'

Then I said, 'That's the reason'

Oh careless love'

Oh, love

Oh love

Oh, careless love

Oh, love’ll lie

Oh love, oh love

Oh careless —

Yeah you, can’t you see

What it have done?

Yes, my mama

She used to kneel an pray

Oh, my mama

She used to kneel an she’d pray

An I b’lieve I heard her say

'Oh Lord, will you see my child, today

And you see what this careless love

Done causin?'

And you can just see, now

What a careless love have done

Now, you can just see

What careless love have done

An you now, you can s-

You can

You can just see

What careless love have done

An you know it done

'Caused me to do a lot of things wrong

An that caused me to Leave my happy home.