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Artist: Gladys Knight
Canonical path: /gladys-knight-the-pips/this-child-needs-its-father
Related lyric paths: 6
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This Child Needs Its Father
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This Child Needs Its Father
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This child needs its father
Come back home, joe
This child needs its father
Come back home,
We both need you, joe
People talk as i walk with the baby
But i still hold my head high
With a smile i disguise the pain i feel
But they still see it in my eyes
I'm trying to do the best i can
But i refuse to let this baby hold another man
This child needs its father
Come back home, joe
This child needs its father
Come back home,
We both need you, joe
I just cry when i try to forget you
And i'm searching for something to do
But the baby starts fussing, and i see his face
And you know, he is the picture of you
I put our lives in you hands, joe
Because the love wouldn't be the same with another man
He calls for daddy everyday
But you're not there
I am running out the things to say
How can i tell him you just don't care?
This child needs its father
Come back home, joe
This child needs its father
Come back home,
We both need you, joe
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Gladys Knight performs "This Child Needs Its Father", and this lyric page sits inside the Gladys Knight catalog on LyroVerse.
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