Sugar Baby-Ruth Brown

I've got my back to the sun 'cause the light is too intense I can see what everybody in the world is up against Can't turn back, you can't come back, sometimes we push too far One day you'll open your eyes and you'll see where we are Sugar baby get on down the road, you ain't got no brains nohow You went years without me, might as well keep goin' now Some of these bootleggers, they make pretty good stuff. Plenty of places to hide things here if you want to hide them bad enough. I'm staying with Aunt Sally, but you know she not really my aunt. Some of these memories, you can learn to live with and some of'em you can't Sugar baby get on down the line, you ain't got no brains nohow You went years without me, might as well keep goin' now The ladies down in Darktown, they're doin' the Darktown strut Y'always got to be prepared, but you never know for what There ain't no limit to the amount of trouble women bring Love is pleasing, love is teasing, love not an evil thing Sugar baby get on down the road, you ain't got no brains nohow You went years without me, might as well keep goin' now Every moment of existence seems like some dirty trick Happiness can come suddenly and leave just as quick Any minute of the day, the bubble can burst Try to make things better for someone sometimes you just end up makin' it thousand times worse Sugar baby get on down the road, you ain't got no brains nohow You went years without me, might as well keep goin' now Your charms have broken many a heart and mine is surely one You got a way of tearin' the world apart, love, see what you've done Just as sure as we're livin', just as sure as you're born Look up, look up, seek your maker, for Gabriel blows his horn Sugar baby, get on down the line, you ain't got no sense nohow You went years without me, might as well keep goin' now