Weepin' Mama Blues

My mama never had nothing
 That she could call her own
 When I was three my daddy left me
 And my mother all alone
 I had to quit school and get a job
 So I could pay my way
 I broke my back in cotton field
 For 15 cents a day
 But don't cry mama
 Don't you cry
 Oh mama don't you cry
 
 We made it through till '60
 When Vietnam broke out
 My brother got killed and that gave
 My mama some more to cry about
 They sent us a wire and said
 That he'd been killed in an attack
 He helped a friend to get on his feet
 And they shot him in the back
 But don't cry mama
 Don't you cry
 Oh mama don't you cry
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 We made it through our trouble
 We made it through the war
 But mother's heart was so weak
 And she just couldn't take any more
 I told her not to worry
 That we always had survived
 But in the winter of '69
 She just took sick and died
 And I cried for mama everyday
 You know I cried
 Woah, I cried for my mama, yeah