4. Shame, Shame, Shame

Words & Music by Jimmy Reed

(Lyrics in the brackets on the last
verse & chorus are sung simultaneously
by the backing vocals and are from
‘Can I get A Witness’
written by Lamont, Dozier, Holland.)

Well I tried to tell you baby
But it meant no sense
Now you got me baby
Up against this fence.

And Ain’t that a shame, shame shame
Shame, shame the way you do
Well it’s a shame, shame shame
Oh it’s a shame on you.

Well now you walk out in the evening
Don’t even say you’re gone
6 o’clock in the morning
You come walking home.

And ain’t that a shame, shame, shame
Shame, shame the way you do
Oh it’s a shame, shame, shame
Hey it’s a shame on you

Well I be sittin’ there waitin’
(Listen everybody)
Cryin’ for you to come home.
(Especially you girls)
When I wake up baby
(Is it right to be left alone)
I’m sittin’ here all alone
(While the one you love is never home?)

And ain’t that a shame, shame, shame
(I love too hard, my friends sometimes say)
Shame, shame the way you do.
(But I believe, I believe that a woman should be loved that way)

Well it’s a shame, shame, shame
(But it hurts me so inside to see her treat me so unkind)
Oh it’s shame on you.
(Somebody, somewhere tell her it’s unfair)