Mama don't cry no more Wipe those tears from your eyes Mama, theres so many nights we sleep in a bundle like a flock of sheep Ooh..better days are there for sure Oh I will bear the hunger, we poor Mama, theres so many times we go through days without

Your life serving daughter Be scared of living There's hope in the air There's hope in the water There is a man that I know For seventeen years he never spoke Guess he had nothing to say He opened his mouth on judgment day I listened with all of my might

Don't you understand? There's misery in the land Got the vote for you, got the vote for you You've been talkin', talkin' to the people Tryin' get them to go your way Tellin' us, not to worry Worry, we won't be led astray So blind, unsignified Your

Lady, I'm your knight in shining armor and I love you You have made me what I am and I'm yours My love, there's so many ways I want to say I love you Let me hold you in my arms forever more You have gone and made me such a fool I'm so lost in your love

But like me He don't know where he'll go wrong; He won't cry so many tears There's no room for us out there; You can lose your hope and pride. When it comes to broken dreams You'll get your share. Sometime a man breaks down, And the good thing he is

When I close my eyes You're always there You're all I see In the dark of night You're in my dreams Throughout the day You're easy to find There's so many things I didn't say

And there's nowhere to go but up There's nowhere to go but up Life's a balloon That tumbles or rises Depending on what is inside Fill it with hope And playful surprises And oh, deary ducks Then you're in for a ride

I'm a hurricane And there's a storm you're starting now I'm a wanderess I'm a one night stand Don't belong to no city Don't belong to no man I'm the violence in the pouring rain And there's a storm you're starting Come and fade me

You see a man's face But you will never know his thoughts Yeah yeah yeah ah But you don't see his heart Everywhere you go There's a man to say love Never neither never neither Take it to heart For your heart is your heart

At the end of the day At the end of the day you're another day older And that's all you can say for the life of the poor It's a struggle, it's a war And there's nothing that anyone's giving One more day standing about, what is it for? One day less to be