Lyr Add: Darlin' Don't You Know That's Wrong

Subject: Lyr Add: Darlin' Don't You Know That's Wrong
From: Joe Offer
Date: 21 Jun 20 - 11:52 PM

Another song that needs exploring.

The Lonesome Sisters - Darlin' Don't You Know That's Wrong

Darlin don't you know that's wrong
Darlin don't you know that's wrong
You love another woman and you don't love me
Darlin don't you know that's wrong

Can't get along with you
Can't get along with you
Work for my money, give it all to you
What else can a poor girl do?

Can't get a letter from home
Can't get a letter from home
Train's on the track, I can't get it back
Can't get a letter from home

Who's gonna shoe your feet
who's gonna glove your little hands
who's gonna kiss your rosy red cheeks
when I'm in a foreign land?

Papa's gonna shoe your feet
mama's gonna glove your little hand
her baby's gonna kiss your rosy red cheek
when I'm in a foreign land


Darlin don't you know that's wrong
Darlin don't you know that's wrong
You love another woman and you don't love me
Darlin don't you know that's wrong

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Darlin' Don't You Know That's Wrong
From: Steve Gardham
Date: 22 Jun 20 - 03:08 PM

Any relation to 'Darlin, you can't love one'? Without the 2 commonplaces from Lass of Rochroyal there's very little substance to go on, Joe.

Way back in the early 60s before I became acquainted with the British folk scene I delighted in those American paperback compilations with a colourful cover, long disintegrated, but seem to remember several 'darling' songs.

Memory from 60 years ago:

Darling you can't love one
Darling you can't love one,
You can't love one and have any fun
Darling you can't love one.

Incremental verses two, three etc.

Verse 3 similar
Gonna roll in my sweet baby's arms
Gonna roll in my sweet baby's arms
Gonna lay around the track till the mailtrain comes back
Gonna roll in my sweet baby's arms.

All very singable and easy to strum a few chords to.