Don’t Make Your Children Pay

Lyrics

[Chorus] Don't make your children Don't make 'em pay for your mistakes It ain't right, oh no Listen to me, now Don't make your children Don't make 'em pay for your mistakes Because they didn't ask to come here, oh no Don't make your children Please, don't make 'em pay for your mistakes Oh no, oh no [Verse] Seems like I can hear some mother Sayin' to her husband right now "Don't you know that we're down To the last cup of flour in the barrel?" And she said "Man, don't you know We don't but three or four spoons of lard left in the can? And yet, and still You wanna take the little money we got saved And stay out all night and drink? You know, you haven't worked in goin' on six months But I promised myself a long time ago That I wouldn't leave my children on nobody else I let you stay here and drink up all the rest Of that little money that we got saved But I'm gonna stand by my children Stand by 'em 'til the very" And I can see that poor father and some corner With four little arms, mumbling something to himself And I don't know what he's sayin' But I can imagine in my mind I can imagine I hear him say "I'm gonna get me a job early in the mornin' I'm not gonna make my children pay for my mistakes" Listen, "Because they didn't ask to come here And I'd be less than a father if I made 'em pay for my mistakes" (They didn't ask to come here) "You see My children didn't ask to come here" "And who knows, I might have to turn back on 'em For a favor one day" (They didn't ask to come here) "You see, they, they didn't ask to come here, oh no And I'm not gonna make my children, ooh Lord I'm not gonna make 'em pay, oh Not gonna pay for my mistakes, it ain't right It ain't right"