Mwakam,
mwakam,
mwakam,
mwakam,
mwakam,
mwakam,
mwakam
Oh honey child, don't waste your smile
Save all your love for me
When I come home it'll be worthwhile
Just you wait and see
I know I've been a bad,
bad boy and been away from home
But didn't I write and didn't I call you,
didn't I telephone?
I've shown your picture to my friends and they all agree
That oh honey child, that you must wait for me
Oh honey child, that you must wait for me
I haven't made much money
But love is a splendid thing
And I gotta tell you honey
I've saved enough to buy a ring
We'll make a little love nest that we can call our own
Other folks may laugh and scorn but we will have a home
Little children round our feet as happy as can be
If only honey, you will wait for me
If only honey, you will wait for me
Twenty years have passed since then
And things got slowly worse,
damn it
Her mother was evicted from the slum
in town And came to join us first
Then her brother from Milwaukee went and lost
his dorky And didn't even ask if he could stay
He just walked in as cool as a cat and asked to stay the night
Now honey child, you know that just ain't right
Oh honey child, you know it just ain't right
Kids seem to sprawl from every pore And now we got seventeen
I tell you honey,
I can't take no more I'm the saddest sight I've ever seen
That lovely girl I once knew just let herself go
Don't you talk about me like that,
you no good so-and-so
I tell you folks,
I've had enough I've given all I'm given
Oh honey child,
you just can't call this living Oh honey child,
you just can't call this living