You're a mean mistreating mama
                                                and you don't mean me no good
You're a mean mistreating mama
                                                and you don't mean me no good
And I don't blame you, baby:
                                        I'd be the same way if I could

You say you're going to leave me
                                                well you say you going away
Now you say you're going to leave me
                                                        and you say you going away
That's all right baby:
                            maybe you'll come back home some day

Now you're a mean mistreater
                                            and you mistreats me all the time
Now you're a mean mistrcater
                                            and you mistreats me all the time
I tried to love you, baby:
                                I swear, but you won't pay that no mind

Can you remember, mama, in the morning, I knocked upon your door,
You had the nerve to tell me you didn't want me no more;
        Can you remember, baby,
        When I knocked upon your door,
        You had the nerve to tell me
        That you didn't want me no more?

Ain't it lonesome, sleeping all by yourself,
When the one that you love is loving someone else;
        Ain't it lonesome,
        Sleeping by yourself,
        When the one that you love,
        Baby, is loving someone else?