Wrong Black Mare

Mama’s little baby won’t hush down

She’s spookin’ all the hens and the old milk cow

Rest your head in the cradle now

Ain’t no one gonna hear a sound

Daddy laid it all on the wrong black mare

Hopped the next train to God knows where

But God don’t go where your daddy’s gone

Where the cowards and the fools belong

Mama waited up on the porch all night

Waited up ‘til the morning light

She fed those hens and she milked that cow

Then she got behind the old man’s plow

And late last night a bad man came

Screamin’ curses at your daddy’s name

You woke screamin’ to a frightening sound

And your mama laying on the ground

A bad man running down the back door stairs

Blame it all on the wrong black mare

Mama’s little baby won’t hush down

She’s spookin’ all the hens and the old milk cow

Rest your head in the cradle now

Ain’t no one gonna hear a sound