My Swwetie Went Away - Bessie Smith

I’ve got a lovesick tale to tell to you

Though it ain’t no affair of mine

It’s 'bout a gal named Sue and a boy named Lou

They were fighting all the time

Sue came home one afternoon

And found an empty dining room

Without a word her turtledove had flown

She began to moan

My sweetie went away but he didn’t say where

He didn’t say when, he didn’t say why

Oh, bid me goodbye;

I’m blue as I can be

I know he loved another one but he didn’t say who

He didn’t say when, he didn’t say what

His mama has got that took my sweetie from me

I’m like a little lost sheep and I can’t sleep

But I keep trying to forget

My trifling papa has left his mama all alone, I groan

My sweetie went away but he didn’t say where

He didn’t say when, he didn’t say why

I know I’ll die;

why don’t he hurry home?