Lyrics

Oh, honey chil' Don't waste your smile Save all your love for me When I come home it'll be worthwhile Just you wait and see I know I've been a bad bad boy And been away from home But didn't I write and didn't I call you Didn't I telephone? I've shown your picture to my friends And they all agree That oh, honey chil', that you must wait for me Oh, honey chil', that you must wait for me I haven't made much money But love is a splendid thing And I gotta tell you, honey I've saved enough to buy a ring We'll make a little love-nest That we can call our own Other folks may laugh and scorn But wе will have a home Little childrеn round our feet As happy as can be If only, honey, you will wait for me If only, honey, you will wait for me Twenty years have passed since then And things got slowly worse (Dammit) Mother was evicted from a slum in town And came to join us first Then her brother from Milwaukee Went and lost his door key And didn't even ask if he could stay He just walked in as cool as a cat And asked to stay the night Now, ah, honey chil', you know that just ain't right Oh, honey chil', you know it just ain't right Kids seem to sprout from every pore And now we got seventeen I tell you, honey, I can't take no more I'm the saddest sight I've ever seen That lovely girl that I once knew Just let herself go "Don't you talk 'bout me like that You no-good so-and-so" I tell you, folks, I've had enough I've given all I'm giving Oh, honey chil', you just can't call this living Oh, honey chil', you just can't call this living