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Oh love, ooh love |
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Oh, careless love |
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Yes, oh love, oh love |
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Oh, careless love |
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Oh love oh, oh love |
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Oh love, oh, careless |
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How can't you see |
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What careless love, have done? |
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And it have caused me to weep |
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And to |
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It done caused me to weep |
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And to moan |
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It done caused me to weep |
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An it caused me to moan |
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You know that love done caused |
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Me to leave my happy home |
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Oh love'll lie |
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Oh love, just |
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Oh love, oh |
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Oh, love'll die |
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Ooh, love |
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Oh love, oh careless |
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Now you can see me |
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What a careless love have |
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My mother, she told me |
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When I was a child |
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My mother, told me |
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When I was a child |
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My mother, she told me |
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She told me |
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When I was a child |
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'These old, battle axe women |
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Son, gon' run you wild' |
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Then I said, 'That's the reason' |
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Oh careless love' |
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Oh, love |
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Oh love |
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Oh, careless love |
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Oh, love'll lie |
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Oh love, oh love |
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Oh careless |
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Yeah you, can't you see |
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What it have done? |
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Yes, my mama |
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She used to kneel an pray |
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Oh, my mama |
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She used to kneel an she'd pray |
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An I b'lieve I heard her say |
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'Oh Lord, will you see my child, today |
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And you see what this careless love |
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Done causin?' |
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And you can just see, now |
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What a careless love have done |
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Now, you can just see |
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What careless love have done |
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An you now, you can |
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You can |
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You can just see |
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What careless love have done |
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An you know it done |
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Caused me to do a lot of things wrong |
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An that caused me to |
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Leave my happy home. |