Oh, mister how's your daughter?
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You really ought to know
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For every thing you taught her
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Don't matter when she's all alone
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My crazy friend named Cara
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After all of us told her?, No?
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S-s-she'd get another spoon ball
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Now, she's going no where slow
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Her papa caught her for the first time
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And put her out on the street
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Cara told me to remind him
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That she was only seventeen
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Yo, mister how's your daughter? How's your girl?
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You really ought to know
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Every thing you taught her
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It don't matter when she's all alone
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Cara got hooked up with the wrong kids
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Then s-s-she started skipping school
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Then Cara got high to make disappear
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A world full of fools
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In her eyes her father was the biggest fool of them all
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And she was speeding, that's what she'd say
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Maybe, maybe, maybe she wouldn't talk so stupid
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If she knew how much she needed this fool today
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Yo, mister how's your daughter?
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You really ought to know
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For every thing you taught her
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Don't matter when she's all alone
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She needs you right now mister
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? Cause she ain't got long to live
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It's so easy to say?, I love you?
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But it's harder to forgive
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Her father cried when I told him that Cara twice got knocked up
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He said?, Just like her mama, aha, she shows her body
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When she wants to show love, she tried that stuff with me
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And I beat her down, there's no way I could let her stay
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Couldn't let her stick around?
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? Cause I tried so hard to raise her right
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He said?, What made her turn out this way?, I don't know
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What made her turn out this way, I don't know, I don't know
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And I said and I said and I said
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Yo, mister how's your daughter?
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You really ought to know, every thing
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Every thing you taught her
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Don't matter when she's all alone
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But she needs you right now mister
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She ain't got long to live
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It's easy to say?, I love you?
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But it's harder to forgive
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(How's your daughter tonight?)
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Yo, mister how's your daughter?
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(How's your daughter tonight?)
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Yo, mister how's your daughter?
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(How's your daughter tonight?)
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Yo, mister how's your daughter?
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(How's your daughter tonight?)
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Yo, mister how's your daughter?
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(How's your daughter tonight?)
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Yo Mister
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Patti Labelle |