Dear Son

Dear son, never shake a mans hand sitting down
Never let em know that you're breaking down
If she play with your heart don't play around
Don't go running downtown now
Treat your girl like you'd expect your sister to be treated
Don't be scared to scare to cry, and any time you need to talk
I'm right here baby

She fell in love when she was just a kid
Highs crush, man he was all there is
He played ball for the McLean co cougars
He was the whole damn county best shooter
She was just a girl pretty big brown eyes
Raised in a lil ugly single wide
Man he was everything, they was only 15
He said forever and he gave her a promise ring
She got pregnant in summer with special gift
A lil boy that looked exactly just like him
6 weeks later had another baby on the way
A lil girl, and this all she had to say

Dear son, never shake a mans hand sitting down
Never let em know that you're breaking down
If she play with your heart don't play around
Don't go running downtown now
Treat your girl like you'd expect your sister to be treated
Don't be scared to scare to cry, and any time you need to talk
I'm right here baby

She gave birth to he second child in her junior year
She gained weight, looked tired cuz he wasn't there
He played ball been chillen with a cheerleader
Her grades are slippen cuz she been up breast feeding
He promised her that he would always be around
As soon as it got hard he was nowhere to be found
She wants to kill em, her brother said he do it for her
He promised if he caught em on the streets its blood pouring
Ain't no time for that, two lil babies crying
Homework, plus job, and 'mamma's tired
But you know she'll win, mamma's always do
She don't need a man, shell show him what to do

Dear son, never shake a mans hand sitting down
Never let em know that you're breaking down
If she play with your heart don't play around
Don't go running downtown now
Treat your girl like you'd expect your sister to be treated
Don't be scared to scare to cry, and any time you need to talk
I'm right here baby

Single mamma, all boys in school talked loud
Baby daddy was a pimp acting proud
Them lil kids more important then all their hate
Their daddy gotta scholarship to UK
And now shes really all alone, her heart is gone
She don't trust all these boys who say they're grown
But single mamma's they will do whatever they gotta do
She gonna stay strong, he can do what he wanna do
It's been 10 years, and she's doing good
She met a guy that loves her baby daddy should
But she ain't trippen now, because he's in and out
And she just happy that she living life without a doubt

Dear son, never shake a mans hand sitting down
Never let em know that you're breaking down
If she play with your heart don't play around
Don't go running downtown now
Treat your girl like you'd expect your sister to be treated
Don't be scared to scare to cry, and any time you need to talk
I'm right here baby