How Long Sweet Daddy How Long by Alberta Hunter Lyrics

[Verse]
Down in my heart, there lies a scream of misery
My daddy left and didn't have a word to say
Lonesome, I'm awfully lonesome
For, people, he was the grandest man in all this world to me

[Chorus]
Now if you see my own dear daddy
Please tell him I said fetch it home
The days so lonesome, and the nights so long
I had no loving since he's been gone
I can't forget the way he used to hold me in his lovin' arms
And call me mama, oh sweet mama
Daddy, sweet daddy, how long, how long?

[Instrumental Break]

[Chorus]
I say if you see my own dear daddy
Please tell him I said bring it home
The days so lonesome, and the nights so long
I had no loving since he's been gone
I can't forget the way he used to hold me in his lovin' arms
And call me mama, oh sweet mama
Daddy, sweet daddy, how long, how long?
[Outro]
Daddy, sweet daddy, how long, how long?