waited so long
For my luck to come in
Though there are up to my neck
At games of chess I can win
I still manage to smile
At times I should be sad
Cause without my sweet baby
Yeah, without my sweet baby
Things would be
Twice as bad
Though I've tried so hard
An end still wouldn't meet
Though I'm the topic of idle gossip
Of all the neighbors on the street
I still can hold my head up high
Though I've lost the little
things I've had
Cause I know without my sweet baby
Yes, without my sweet baby
It would be,
Lord, twice as bad
Though she looks at other women
With envy in her eyes
She never says a doggone word
Sometime
Lord it makes me wanna cry
She's given up all of
her beautiful dreams
For my old tissue paper screams
She gives me hope, faith,
an d all the rest
And
Lord knows that I've been blessed
Cause without my sweet baby, I know without my sweet baby,
nothing would be twice as bad.
Without my sweet baby
I'll tell you without my sweet baby
And I don't believe I can make it,
no, no, no
She means so much to me, yeah