Sister Bessie

Sister Bessie, don't you say no prayer for me

A slow boat's gonna lead me where I'm bound

I'm for to travel far across the distant seas

My destiny will lead me where I'm bound

Only a child, and with a sweet child's tender heart

Waiting for someone to call you mine

How do you keep your faith when you are always falling? Yes, I'm falling

How do you find a way to keep from crying?

Bessie, don't you weep, Bessie, don't you moan

You stole my heart in oh so many ways

But the woman who stole my soul has taken all I have

And left me here alone and in a daze

Bessie, don't you weep no more

Only a child, and with a sweet child's tender heart

Waiting for someone to call you mine

How do you keep your faith when you are always falling? Yes, I'm falling

How do you find a way to keep from crying?

Bessie, don't you weep, Bessie, don't you moan

You stole my heart in oh so many ways

But the woman who stole my soul has taken all I have

And left me here alone and in a daze

Bessie, don't you weep no more