My Sweetie Went Away-Bessie Smith

[ti:My Sweetie Went Away] [ar:Bessie Smith] [al:100 Essential Hits - Very Best Of] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.28]My Sweetie Went Away - Bessie Smith [00:01.07]Written by：Handman Turk [00:01.95] [00:16.46]I've got a lovesick tale to tell to you [00:23.02]Though it ain't no affair of mine [00:27.64]It's 'bout a gal named Sue [00:30.31]And a boy named Lou [00:33.75]They were fighting all the time [00:38.28] [00:39.57]Sue came home one afternoon [00:44.89]And found an empty dining room [00:49.04]Without a word her turtledove had flown [00:55.38]She began to moan [01:00.51] [01:01.15]My sweetie went away [01:03.30]But he didn't say where [01:06.50]He didn't say when [01:09.23]He didn't say why [01:12.02]Oh bid me goodbye [01:15.52]I'm blue as I can be [01:19.75] [01:21.38]I know he loved another one [01:25.14]But he didn't say who [01:28.49]He didn't say when [01:30.77]He didn't say what [01:33.25]His mama has got [01:36.72]That took my sweetie from me [01:40.98] [01:42.05]I'm like a little lost sheep [01:46.04]And I can't sleep [01:48.26]But I keep trying to forget [01:54.31]My trifling papa has left [01:58.01]His mama all alone [02:03.23]I groan [02:05.53]My sweetie went away but [02:08.07]He didn't say where [02:10.88]He didn't say when he didn't say why [02:16.27]I know I'll die [02:19.86]Why don't he hurry home [02:23.04] [02:25.48]I'm like a little lost sheep [02:29.50]And I can't sleep [02:31.46]But I keep trying to forget [02:37.76]My trifling papa has left [02:41.16]His mama all alone [02:46.73]I groan [02:48.49]My sweetie went away but [02:51.15]He didn't say where [02:53.90]He didn't say when he didn't say why [02:59.15]I know I'll die [03:02.61]Why don't he hurry home