Careless Love

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Pete Seeger

Peter "Pete" Seeger (born May 3, 1919) is an iconic American folk singer. A fixture on nationwide radio in the 1940s, he also had a string of hit records during the early 1950s as a member of The Weavers, most notably their recording of Lead Belly's "Goodnight, Irene", which topped the charts for 13 weeks in 1950. Members of The Weavers were blacklisted during the McCarthy Era. In the 1960s, he re-emerged on the public scene as a prominent singer of protest music in support of international disarmament, civil rights, and environmental causes. more »

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2012

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Oh love, ooh love
Oh, careless love

Yes, oh love, oh love
Oh, careless love

Oh love oh, oh love
Oh love, oh, careless 

How can't you see
What careless love, have done?

And it have caused me to weep
And to 
It done caused me to weep
And to moan
It done caused me to weep
An it caused me to moan
You know that love done caused
Me to leave my happy home

Oh love'll lie
Oh love, just

Oh love, oh

Oh, love'll die
Ooh, love
Oh love, oh careless 
Now you can see me
What a careless love have 

My mother, she told me
When I was a child

My mother, told me
When I was a child

My mother, she told me
She told me
When I was a child
'These old, battle axe women
Son, gon' run you wild'

Then I said, 'That's the reason'
Oh careless love'
Oh, love

Oh love
Oh, careless love
Oh, love'll lie
Oh love, oh love
Oh careless 
Yeah you, can't you see
What it have done?

Yes, my mama
She used to kneel an pray
Oh, my mama
She used to kneel an she'd pray
An I b'lieve I heard her say
'Oh Lord, will you see my child, today
And you see what this careless love
Done causin?'

And you can just see, now
What a careless love have done
Now, you can just see
What careless love have done

An you now, you can 
You can
You can just see
What careless love have done
An you know it done
Caused me to do a lot of things wrong

An that caused me to
Leave my happy home.

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