Lyrics Carmen McRae

Carmen McRae

My Man

It's cost me a lot

But there's one thing that I've got

It's my man

Cold and wet, tired you bet

But all that I soon forget

With my man

He's not much for looks

And no hero out of books

Is my man

Two or three girls has he

That he likes as well as me

But I love him!

I don't know why I should

He isn't good, he isn't true

He beats me too

What can I do?

Oh, my man I love him so

He'll never know

All my life is just despair

But I don't care

When he takes me in his arms

The world is bright, all right

What's the difference if I say

I'll go away, When I know

I'll come back on my knees some day?

For whatever my man is

I am his forever more

Oh, my man I love him

Sometimes I say

If I could just get away

With my man

He'd go straight sure as fate

For it never is too late

For a man

I just like to dream

Of a cottage by a stream

With my man

Where a few flowers grew

And perhaps a kid or two

Like my man

And then my eyes get wet

I most forget till he gets hot

And tells me not to talk such rot

Oh, my man I love him so

He'll never know

All my life is just despair

But I don't care

When he takes me in his arms

The world is bright, all right

What's the difference if I say

I'll go away, When I know

I'll come back on my knees some day?

For what ever my man is

I am his forever more